Tomcat restart failed...

[naag...@gmail.com]

Hi,

- hosts: dev_tomcat

  vars:

    http_port: 8080

    sudo: true

    sudo_user: build

  tasks:

  - name: copy_shut

    copy: src=/etc/ansible/playbooks/scripts/shutdown_all.sh dest=/tmp

  - name: change_permission_shut

    file: path=/tmp/shutdown_all.sh mode=777

  - name: copy_start

    copy: src=/etc/ansible/playbooks/scripts/startup_all.sh dest=/tmp

  - name: change_permission_start

    file: path=/tmp/startup_all.sh mode=777

  - name: stopping tomcat

    shell: /tmp/./shutdown_all.sh

  - name: starting tomcat

   #command: sudo -u build /etc/init.d/tomcat start

    shell: /tmp/./startup_all.sh

startup_all.sh => /etc/init.d/tomcat start

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Shutdown was happen properly, but it did not start tomcat, please advise how to resolve this.

Thanks,

[J Hawkesworth]

My guess would be that your playbook tried to start it before it had finished shutting down.

Simplest thing to do would be wait a bit before trying the start, but it would be better to check it is down.

You could use wait_for module to check it is down:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/wait_for_module.html

Incidentally, checking that tomcat is fully up and ready to service requests is tricky as it seems to lock its listening port and then not respond on it for some time.

We used to just wait before polling a particular url but now we use a pattern similar to what is described here to poll until we get a 200

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/ansible-project/do-until$20with$20uri$20module%7Csort:relevance/ansible-project/iLjIbsCASWU/ZmE-wYdtLQAJ

Hope this helps,

Jon