error in group vars that I can't solve

[Chanaka Samarajeewa]

Hello, 

I'm getting the following error when running my task. For some reason Ansible is complaining about >= characters, but it is ok with <= characters in the same file. I tried single quotes and double quotes around the characters but it causes other errors. Files and error message are as follows: Thank you for your help.

ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, /var/lib/awx/projects/_11813__automated_aws_cloud_watch_alarms/group_vars/ec2-alarms Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 14, column 20 metric: NetworkIn comparison: >= ^

main.yml:

=======

---

# -----------------------------------------------------

# AWS CloudWatch Alarms

# -----------------------------------------------------

- include_vars: ec2-alarms.yml

- debug: var=ec2-alarms

- name: ec2-alarms

  with_items: ec2-alarms

  local_action:

    module: ec2_metric_alarm

    state: present

    region: "{{ item.region }}"

    name: "{{ item.region }}-{{ item.name }}-{{ item.metric }}-instanceId-{{ item.instanceId }}"

    metric: "{{ item.metric }}"

    namespace: "AWS/EC2"

    statistic: Average

    comparison: "{{ item.comparison }}"

    threshold: "{{ item.threshold }}"

    period: 300

    evaluation_periods: 1

    unit: "{{ item.unit }}"

    description: ""

    dimensions: {"InstanceId":"{{ item.instanceId }}"}

    alarm_actions: ["{{ item.alarm }}"]

  tags: alarm

- name: ec2-ebs-alarms

  local_action:

    module: ec2_metric_alarm

    state: present

    region: "{{ item.region }}"

    name: "{{ item.region }}-{{ item.name }}-{{ item.metric }}-volumeId-{{ item.volumeId }}"

    metric: "{{ item.metric }}"

    namespace: "AWS/EBS"

    statistic: Average

    comparison: "{{ item.comparison }}"

    threshold: "{{ item.threshold }}"

    period: "{{ item.period }}"

    evaluation_periods: 1

    unit: "{{ item.unit }}"

    description: ""

    dimensions: {"VolumeId":"{{ item.volumeId }}"}

    alarm_actions: ["{{ item.alarm }}"]

  with_items:

    - { name: 'chanakatest4', region: 'us-west-2', metric: 'VolumeReadOps', comparison: '>=', threshold: '1350', period: '3600', unit: 'None', volumeId: 'vol-69907266', alarm: 'arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:779200210943:sysalerts' }

    - { name: 'chanakatest5', region: 'us-west-2', metric: 'VolumeWriteOps', comparison: '>=', threshold: '1350', period: '3600', unit: 'None', volumeId: 'vol-69907266', alarm: 'arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:779200210943:sysalerts' }

  tags: alarm

ec2-alarms yml

===========

---

ec2-alarms:

    - name: chanakatest1

      region: ap-southeast-1

      metric: CPUUtilization

      comparison: <=

      threshold: 85.0

      unit: Percent

      instanceId: i-10ca18dd

      alarm: arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:779200210943:chanakaalerts

    - name: chanakatest2

      region: ap-southeast-1

      metric: NetworkIn

      comparison: >=

      threshold: 8000000000

      unit: Bytes

      instanceId: i-10ca18dd

      alarm: arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:779200210943:chanakaalerts

    - name: chanakatest3

      region: ap-southeast-1

      metric: NetworkOut

      comparison: >=

      threshold: 8000000000

      unit: Bytes

      instanceId: i-10ca18dd

      alarm: arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:779200210943:chanakaalerts

[Brian Coca]

Have you tried quoting it? > is a reserved Yaml character (signifies
multiline input) so it requires quoting, < is not a reserved
character.

comparison: '>='


--
Brian Coca

[Bhotu]

Does that "arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:779200210943:chanakaalerts" works ?.. I am getting the unusual error saying 

"msg": "BotoServerError: 400 Bad Request\n<ErrorResponse xmlns=\"http://monitoring.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-08-01/\">\n  <Error>\n 

How to create the notification with ec2_metric_alarm module ?.. I created with "sns" module. But how can I use it in autoscaling group ?