Is there a way we can delay the connection instead of unreachable

[Work-Hard]

Hello,

ISSUE -  Whenever a user in a company is not connected to the vpn; ansible fails the connection (as unreachable). Is there a way we can delay the connection for 20 days and have it keep trying every hour, instead of showing "unreachable"?

REASON-  I need the output to look clean when I save the file in order to validate within the company.

I appreciate your help!

Thanks

[hammou zligui]

Yes;

use pause module, as an example : playbook that create 10 VMs and inatll http on these 10 VMs, so before installing httpd i should wait for VMs to be up i use pause

exemple using pause module

-name: pause for 2 mins

   pause:

        minutes: 2

good lok

[Phil Griffiths]

This just sounds like a really bad idea! Having plays hanging around waiting for 20 days doesn't sound sensible.

Why not just fail controllably after a number of retries perhaps?

I use something like this to do this:

...tasks...

register: output

until: output is not failed

retries: 3