You need to indent your 'that' key further: tasks:
- assert: that: - commonWeekday.stdout == "Saturday" - ansible_date_time.hour == "10" - commonResultBackup!success -- Matt Martz [email protected] On April 23, 2014 at 11:54:34 AM, Michael Sphar ([email protected]) wrote: I'm still pretty new to ansible, so I feel like I am probably doing something really stupid, but I cannot get the assert module to work. I have ansible version 1.5.3. I'm getting "ERROR: assert is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler" in all my attempts to use an assert. I've been searching the docs and all I can find is the doc which gives a snippet example of using assert and my attempts to copy that aren't working, and I can't find an actual complete playbook example that includes the use of assert to compare to. What I'm trying to do, assert may not even be the right approach for. Basically I'm developing a playbook for automated reboots that is *very* dangerous during production hours and which should only ever be allowed to run on a Saturday during a designated window, and so I want the playbook to include some explicit rules that will prevent it from rebooting when it's not supposed to, even if some chucklehead accidentally executes it during the week. Ideally, I'd be able just reference an ansible fact for the day of the week, but I can't seem to find one? So I'm using the date command to get the day of the week and registering that into a variable. Then I want to abort the playbook when that and another condition are not met. My test playbook looks like this (the tasks that set commonWeekday and commonResultBackup are in roles/common/tasks/main.yml): REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml: --- - hosts: REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM roles: - common tasks: - assert: that: - commonWeekday.stdout == "Saturday" - ansible_date_time.hour == "10" - commonResultBackup!success - name: Reboot the server with warning delay - Don't wait for it to complete command: shutdown -r +5 Automated Weekly Reboot sudo: yes async: 600 poll: 0 ignore_errors: true And if I test it: $ ansible-playbook --syntax-check REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml playbook: REBOOTGROUP_SAT_10AM.yml ERROR: assert is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/895b2035-523d-4e2f-a0de-e4e447f11ec5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/etPan.5357f0b2.6b8b4567.9c54%40mobiletuvix.rackspace.corp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
