Help on Conditionals - When

[Sanoop Karat]

Dear Team,

I have been trying to add conditionals for my tasks and roles.

But, the one I entered for role is getting evaluated to true always and the one on the tasks are evaluated to false.

Can you help on what needs to be changed.

Below is my playbook 

- hosts: sec

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'security') or (bName == 'all')

- hosts: core

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'core') or (bName == 'all')

- hosts: composition

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'composition') or (bName == 'all')

The above playbook is getting executed for all hosts, even though the bName 'security'.

Below are the tasks

- name: Adding the User account to Log on as a service

  win_user_right:

    name: SeServiceLogonRight

    users:

    - '{{ srvLogOnUsr }}'

    action: add

  when: uselogonUser

- name: Start the service with logon

  win_service:

    name: "{{ service }}"

    start_mode: auto

    state: started

    username: "{{ srvLogOnUsr }}"

    password: "{{ srvLogOnPassword }}"

  when:

    - opr == "Start"

    - uselogonUser == "true"

Both these tasks are gettign skipped even though uselogonUser = true & opr = Start

Can anyone guide me on what is going wrong.

Thanks

Sanoop

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 5/23/21 9:55 AM, Sanoop Karat wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> I have been trying to add conditionals for my tasks and roles.
> But, the one I entered for role is getting evaluated to true always and
the one on the tasks are evaluated to false.
>
> Can you help on what needs to be changed.
>
> Below is my playbook 
>
> - hosts: sec
>   roles:
>   - role: service-operations
>     when: (bName == 'security') or (bName == 'all')
>
> - hosts: core
>   roles:
>   - role: service-operations
>     when: (bName == 'core') or (bName == 'all')
>
> - hosts: composition
>   roles:
>   - role: service-operations
>     when: (bName == 'composition') or (bName == 'all')
>
> The above playbook is getting executed for all hosts, even though the bName 'security'.

Where is bName defined?

>
> Below are the tasks
>
> - name: Adding the User account to Log on as a service
>   win_user_right:
>     name: SeServiceLogonRight
>     users:
>     - '{{ srvLogOnUsr }}'
>     action: add
>   when: uselogonUser
>
> - name: Start the service with logon
>   win_service:
>     name: "{{ service }}"
>     start_mode: auto
>     state: started
>     username: "{{ srvLogOnUsr }}"
>     password: "{{ srvLogOnPassword }}"
>   when:
>     - opr == "Start"
>     - uselogonUser == "true"
>
> Both these tasks are gettign skipped even though uselogonUser = true & opr = Start
>

true (boolean value) is different from "true" (string).

Regards
Racke

> Can anyone guide me on what is going wrong.
>
>
> Thanks
> Sanoop
>

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[Sanoop Karat]

Where is bName defined? - It is defined in the groupvariables vars.yml file

[Dick Visser]

On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 09:55, Sanoop Karat <sanoops...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Team,

I have been trying to add conditionals for my tasks and roles.

But, the one I entered for role is getting evaluated to true always and the one on the tasks are evaluated to false.

Can you help on what needs to be changed.

Below is my playbook 

- hosts: sec

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'security') or (bName == 'all')

- hosts: core

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'core') or (bName == 'all')

- hosts: composition

  roles:

  - role: service-operations

    when: (bName == 'composition') or (bName == 'all')

The above playbook is getting executed for all hosts, even though the bName 'security'.

But the conditional has an OR in it, so the entire expression will be influenced by two sub expressions. 

You can add debug tasks for both variables to each play section. This will reveal what values are being used, giving a hint as where to look why these variables get overridden.

Below are the tasks

- name: Adding the User account to Log on as a service

  win_user_right:

    name: SeServiceLogonRight

    users:

    - '{{ srvLogOnUsr }}'

    action: add

  when: uselogonUser

- name: Start the service with logon

  win_service:

    name: "{{ service }}"

    start_mode: auto

    state: started

    username: "{{ srvLogOnUsr }}"

    password: "{{ srvLogOnPassword }}"

  when:

    - opr == "Start"

    - uselogonUser == "true"

Both these tasks are gettign skipped even though uselogonUser = true & opr = Start

Can anyone guide me on what is going wrong.

Thanks

Sanoop

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