Running ansible tasks in background and disown

[Kaustav Majumder]

Hi all, i am trying to top , sar , iostats in the backgound via ansible on remote hosts and collect stats redirecting outpu to a log file while I run other tasks from my local machine. I have tried - name: collect hypervisor stats hosts: all tasks: - name: execute sar iostat scripts shell: top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt & disown but it stops by itself. I want to kill the tasks after sometime manually. Is there any way

[Jonathan Lozada De La Matta]

ansible facts can't get the information? 

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:23 AM Kaustav Majumder <kmaj...@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi all, i am trying to top , sar , iostats in the backgound via ansible on remote hosts and collect stats redirecting outpu to a log file while I run other tasks from my local machine. I have tried - name: collect hypervisor stats hosts: all tasks: - name: execute sar iostat scripts shell: top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt & disown but it stops by itself. I want to kill the tasks after sometime manually. Is there any way

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[Adam E]

not sure if you would get different results, but maybe try nohup instead of disown.  ie.

- name: execute sar iostat scripts shell: nohup top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt &

Another option could be to use the "at" module to schedule a task to start immediately. ie..

- name: Schedule a command to execute in 0 minutes as root. 
  at: 
    command: top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt 
    count: 0 
    units: minutes