Newbie question on syntax

[Kenny Barnes]

Keep getting an error when running the following playbook.  Copied from gethub and watch youtube running the same w/o error. 

---

- name: Get Existing UCS Information

  hosts: ucs (Runs on UCS group in the inv file)

  connection: local

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      getucswwpns:

        host={{ inventory_hostname }}

        ucs_user="config"

        ucs_pass="config"

        outputfile=output.txt

        logfile=log.txt

Error:

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      ^ here

Any help appreciated. 

[Sieds Pallas]

Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 20:51:55 UTC+2 schreef Kenny Barnes:

Keep getting an error when running the following playbook.  Copied from gethub and watch youtube running the same w/o error. 

Error:

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      ^ here

 

Indentation?

I think the dash needs to align with the t of task

 

[Kenny Barnes]

Thanks but I moved like so and now get another error.

 tasks:

  - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

     getucswwpns:

       host={{ inventory_hostname }}

       ucs_user="config"

       ucs_pass="config"

       outputfile=output.txt

       logfile=log.txt

The offending line appears to be:

  - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

     getucswwpns:

                          ^ here

[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

Le 05/09/2017 à 22:26, Kenny Barnes a écrit :
> Thanks but I moved like so and now get another error.
>
> tasks:
> - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS
> getucswwpns:
> host={{ inventory_hostname }}
> ucs_user="config"
> ucs_pass="config"
> outputfile=output.txt
> logfile=log.txt
>
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
> - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS
> getucswwpns:
> ^ here

Hi,

All your problems lies to some wrong indentation...

Please read :
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/YAMLSyntax.html
and
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_roles.html#task-versus-play-includes

in your last error, getucswwpns need to be aligned to name...

Regards,

JYL

[Kenny Barnes]

I have moved the alignment every way possible it seams.  Will continue to read...

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[Jean-Yves LENHOF]

There's also a problem with ":" and "="

If you put arguments on multiple lines you need to use ":" and not "="...  (preferred way for readability)

Documentation about it here : http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_intro.html#playbook-language-example

If you put arguments on the same line than your module you need to use "="

Regards,

JYL

[Kai Stian Olstad]

The problem is that you have not shown you complete error message, the
part you have is not relevant at all.
If you look at you output is also say something like "the error might be
else in the file".

If you had provided the completa error message you probably would had a
answer much sooner.
But my guess is that your problem is the hosts: line, remove the
parentheses and the text between.

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[Kenny Barnes]

Not sure what you mean my removing the parentheses and text between.  Doesn't that equal blank??

This is my complete yml file>

---

- name: Get Existing UCS Information

  hosts: ucs

  connection: local

  gather_facts: no

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      getucswwpns:

        hosts= {{ inventory_hostname }}

        ucs_usercwcw="config"

        ucs_passcwcw="config"

        outputfilecw=output.txt

        logfile=log.txt

This is the complete error msg. 

ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/ucs/autozone.yml': line 8, column 7, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      ^ here

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/ucs/autozone.yml': line 8, column 7, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:

    - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS

      ^ here

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On torsdag 7. september 2017 16.55.04 CEST Kenny Barnes wrote:
> Not sure what you mean my removing the parentheses and text between.
> Doesn't that equal blank??
> This is my complete yml file>
> ---
> - name: Get Existing UCS Information
> hosts: ucs
> connection: local
> gather_facts: no

In you initial mail you had this

hosts: ucs (Runs on UCS group in the inv file)

So if you had this in you playbook it would fail and the reason for my
comment.

> tasks:
> - name: Pull WWPNs from UCS
> getucswwpns:
> hosts= {{ inventory_hostname }}
> ucs_usercwcw="config"
> ucs_passcwcw="config"
> outputfilecw=output.txt
> logfile=log.txt
>
> This is the complete error msg.
> ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module
> name, or incorrect module path.

This is the essential error message, your module getucswwpns doesn't exist.
getucswwpns is not part of Ansible so you would need to install it.


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[Kenny Barnes]

I did not add the getucswwpns module, and good to know it has to be.  Thanks for the input.

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