Re: [ansible-project] Having issue finding my hosts

[Brian Coca]

I think you are misusing the directives:

- hosts: /ansible/hosts <= this will NOT use that file as inventory
for the play.

The hosts keyword is supposed to be a 'pattern', not a file nor
inventory source.

to use that as your inventory you can do:
ansible-playbook /ansible/playbook/test.yml -i /ansible/hosts

and set hosts: to 'all'

- hosts: all


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Brian Coca

[Jordan Borean]

YAML does not handle \ very well as it is an escaping character in most situations. When defining tasks I would highly recommend using the YAML for instead of the older key=arg form as it makes your code more readable and you don't have to escape \. Your task would now look like this

- name: Copies file to Windows

  win_copy:

    src: /ansible/ansible.cfg

    dest: C:\Users\YRunner\Desktop\test1

When using the YAML form, you don't need to escape \ unless you have double quoted the value. I found you don't need to quote a value unless you want to convert it to a string or it contains a :.

This has more info on this particular topic http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/windows_usage.html#path-formatting-for-windows.

Thanks

Jordan

[J Hawkesworth]

I think the \t in your path will be interpreted as a tab character, which is not valid in a Windows path.

It's best to use key: value syntax when working with Windows paths, rather than the key=value style.

Generally, for hard coded windows paths they will work fine if you use key: value and enter the path in single quotes.

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Jordan Borean]

What I gave you is just the task to use in place of your win_copy one. You still need to specify the other playbook directives like hosts, tasks, roles and the like.

Thanks

Jordan

[Zimidar Boy]

Hello Larry,

                   Any task in ansible comes under task module i think so your script will look like this:

- hosts: nuc

  tasks:

      - name: run simple script

        script: C:\Users\YRunner\Desktop\lp1.bat

On Friday, October 27, 2017 at 10:33:06 AM UTC-4, Larry Pescatore wrote:

HI Jordan, 

Thanks for your help. 

I've got it running now successfully. I have copied over a bat file successfully several times. 

Now, my next step is trying to get the batch files to run via ansible.

This is my play:

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- hosts: nuc

- name: run simple script

  script: C:\Users\YRunner\Desktop\lp1.bat

When I run it I get:

root@Raspi_Ctrl:/ansible# ansible-playbook /ansible/playbook/test1.yml

ERROR! 'script' is not a valid attribute for a Play

The error appears to have been in '/ansible/playbook/test1.yml': line 3, column 3, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

- hosts: nuc

- name: run simple script

  ^ here

So obv. That means I am using the wrong command. What is the right one?

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Thank you, 

Larry Pescatore

Lab Engineer, ERG Inc. @ Google