How to store ansible running log to separate log file without touch ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH or ansible.cfg

[Qin Peter]

Hi All,

This is Peter and I am newer to Ansible.

I am trying to store the ansible running log to a file. And every playbook will have separate ansible running log file.

I know I can use   'export  ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=~/share/logging/peter.log' this variable to do this. But is there any other way?

I prefer a command line parameter or a module. I would like to do some development work but I need some directive guidance.

I cannot use plugin because I cannot affect other ansible users, also I have no right to change the ansible.cfg file. Too much limitataion from the boss, right?

Thanks for any help.

Best Regards,

Peter Qin

[Tony Chia]

How about running the ansible playbook Andy pipe to tee command such as this

Ansible-playbook -I inventory dummy.yml | tee playbook.log

[Qin Peter]

Thanks for the help.

The customer will execute the command so I should work in the playbook.

And what I need to store is running log like below, not the stand output. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks.

 1 2019-02-28 21:27:57,795 p=6115 u=peterqi |  PLAY [test1 output] ***********************************************************************************************************>

  2 2019-02-28 21:27:57,806 p=6115 u=peterqi |  TASK [Gathering Facts] ********************************************************************************************************>

  3 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport starting thread (client mode): 0xfa683450L

  4 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport Local version/idstring: SSH-2.0-paramiko_2.4.1

  5 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Remote version/idstring: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.6.1

  6 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_6.6.1)

  7 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport kex algos:[u'curve255...@libssh.org', u'ecdh-sha2-nistp256', u'ecdh-sha2-nistp384', u'ecdh-sha2-nistp521', u'diffie-hellma>

  8 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Kex agreed: ecdh-sha2-nistp256

  9 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport HostKey agreed: ssh-ed25519

 10 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Cipher agreed: aes128-ctr

 11 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport MAC agreed: hmac-sha2-256

 12 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Compression agreed: none

在 2019年3月1日星期五 UTC+8下午2:37:00，Tony Chia写道：

[Tchia04]

If you are trying to get debug or connection info , try adding -vvvvv to tha ansible-playbook command. 

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[Mike Klebolt]

Try creating an alias.

alias ansible-playbook='ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH="${HOME}/logs/ansible-$(date +%H%M%S).log" ansible-playbook'