Rebooting the server

[Rafał Hajduk]

Hello

I want to reboot my server and continue with other instructions. My code is:

- name: reboot
  command: reboot
  notify:
  - wait until rebooted

- name: wait until rebooted
  local_action: wait_for host={{ansible_fqdn}} port=22 state=started delay=30
  sudo: false

After execution I get an error:

failed: [xxx] => {"elapsed": 300, "failed": true, "item": ""}
msg: Timeout when waiting for myhostname:22

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

How can I fix it?

[Brian Green]

If the server is taking a longer than the default timeout value, increase that value. Default is 300 seconds, might need to increase that.

http://docs.ansible.com/wait_for_module.html

Or there could be a connectivity issue. Is it listening on port 22? Does FQDN name resolution work?

[Rafał Hajduk]

The server reboots very quickly (10-15 seconds), so timeout is not the issue.

However the problem might be the FQDN name. I used it because I found it in some Ansible snippet.

Which variable should I place there in order to get current host rebooted? (in my case it would be xxx)

My hosts file:
[xxx]
xxx

[Brian Green]

What entry is in your inventory host file? Is it IP address, short hostname, fqdn? 

The following variables are valid in your playbook, and the 'right' one depends on your environment.

ansible_fqdn, ansible_hostname, inventory_hostname, inventory_hostname_short

The ansible_fqdn and ansible_hostname are facts determined at the remote host. Inventory_hostname and inventory_hostname_short are parsed from your Ansible inventory file. 

For instance, in your current playbook, if you have an entry for the reboot target of dbserver, and for some reason the 'dbserver' node reports its fqdn as webserver.example.org then your reboot command will wait for webserver.example.org:22 to be available, which may not resolve from your Ansible management node.

Given that Ansible has no problem connecting using the value in your inventory file, you might start with inventory_hostname which will use the entry in your inventory file.

Relevant docs here: http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html