Hi Jim I'm sure ansible could accomplish this for you with a single playbook run. Could you perhaps post your entire playbook?
On 18 January 2015 at 06:40, Jim McMahon <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Tom. That’s what I ended up doing. Unfortunately, I had to run > the ansible playbook once for each server. I really wanted to run the > playbook in one shot against all servers. I could have just created a for > loop using ssh to do it, but I really wanted to see if I could get it to > work with Ansible. > > Jim McMahon > On Jan 17, 2015, at 11:36 PM, Tom Bamford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could you perhaps save the results into different files on the local > machine (such as /tmp/local_action.{{ inventory_hostname }}), then > assemble them into a single file as a subsequent task? There is an assemble > module <http://docs.ansible.com/assemble_module.html> that may do the job. > > > On 18 January 2015 at 04:04, Jim McMahon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I'm trying to run a shell command on multiple servers and have the >> results appended to a local file. The way I have it written now doesn't >> work. I only get the result of the last server because it runs the first >> task for each server before moving on to the next task. Hence I get the >> result of the last server in my file. >> >> How do I get this to work with Ansible? The example here: >> http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html doesn't really fit my >> situation because I want the loop to be on inventory hosts. >> >> >> --- >> >> - name: get metadata on legacy servers >> shell: > >> hostname; len=`hostname | wc -c` ; export len; perl -E 'say "=" x >> ($ENV{"len"} - 1)' ; >> ec2-metadata -i -a -z -s -v >> register: result >> tags: >> - legacy >> >> - name: copy results to local file >> local_action: copy > >> content="{{ result.stdout }}" >> dest="/tmp/local_action" >> tags: >> - legacy >> >> -- >> 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/f980940c-bf3f-416f-896a-d258519e2d6d%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/f980940c-bf3f-416f-896a-d258519e2d6d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/bpjc0Hgw3so/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/CAAnNz0MT3eEC_viDxYTyPc9Bboe1xQbFNF%3DJRvbj2zWOc2yBtQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAAnNz0MT3eEC_viDxYTyPc9Bboe1xQbFNF%3DJRvbj2zWOc2yBtQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/F0992B10-0319-4B21-B003-C9944783159B%40flatworldknowledge.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/F0992B10-0319-4B21-B003-C9944783159B%40flatworldknowledge.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CAAnNz0MEEQhsMQ5Phf%2BDYRTzf9F-%3DpM%2BvBNE2Wa7RngnM%3D-Ajw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
