Unreachable host breaks a template?

[aut...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I'm building an HTML report based on a template that looks something like this:

{% for i in ansible_play_hosts %}

  <tr>

    <td class="tg-o8wf">{{ i }}</td>

    <td class="tg-o8wf">{{ hostvars[i].ansible_os_name }}</td>

    <td class="tg-o8wf">{{ hostvars[i].ansible_distribution }}</td>
    <td class="tg-o8wf">{{ hostvars[i].ansible_env.NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS }}</td>

...
...

In case one of the hosts is unreachable, template is not being generated and the following error is being generated:

TASK [xxx] *************************************

task path: /etc/ansible/playbooks/xxx.yml:6

fatal: [xxx -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"dest": "/etc/ansible/playbooks/xxx.txt", "src": "/etc/ansible/playbooks/xxx.j2"}, "module_name": "template"}, "msg": "AnsibleUndefinedVariable: 'dict object' has no attribute 'ansible_env'"}

...ignoring

Any idea how to overcome this? Skip the unreachable host but do successfully generate "dest" file?

Thanks,

[Brian Coca]

What is failing is that you are attempting to access data you don't have (you failed to gather it).  There seems to be a bug in ansible_play_hosts that is not currently (2.2) excluding failed hosts from the list.

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Brian Coca

[aut...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up,

Meanwhile I managed to overcome this with bunch of IF's in my template which looks something like:

{% for i in ansible_play_hosts %}

  <tr>

{% if hostvars[i].check_finish is not defined %}

    <td>{{ i }}</td>

    <td>Host is unreachable by Ansible</td>

{% else %}

{% if hostvars[i].check_finish.failed is defined %}

    <td class="tg-o8wf">{{ i }}</td>

    <td class="tg-o8wf" colspan="7">{{ hostvars[i].check_finish.msg }}</td>

{% else %}

    <td>{{ i }}</td>

    <td>{{ hostvars[i].ansible_env.USERDOMAIN }}</td>

...
...
...

{% endif %}

{% endif %}

{% endfor %}

[Brian Coca]

Hopefully this fixes the issue going forward https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/18409

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Brian Coca