hostvars[<otherhost][<varname]
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Dimitri Yioulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've found that my register variable only fails when applied to the play
> involving another host in my playbook. After having poured over lots of
> posts from various other sources, I saw one that says, "use hostvars to
> access the register variables from a different host". If, indeed, that's
> the solution, how do I use hostvars to achieve it?
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 12:07:40 PM UTC-5, Dimitri Yioulos
> wrote:
>>
>> I have the following play in a playbook:
>>
>> - hosts: talk
>> gather_facts: false
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: win update
>> win_updates:
>> category:
>> ['SecurityUpdates','CriticalUpdates','Updates','Tools','DefinitionUpdates','UpdateRollups']
>> register: reboot_hint
>>
>> I'd like to re-use reboot_hint in additional plays in the playbook via
>> "when", but the playbook ultimately fails after the first "when", as in:
>>
>> - hosts: talk
>> gather_facts: false
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: start Lyris services
>> win_service: name={{ item }} state=started start_mode=auto
>> with_items: ["ListManager", "LyrisAlert"]
>> when: (lyris_hint.rc == 0) and (reboot_hint.reboot_required ==
>> true) # ie, the ListManager service is installed and reboot is required
>>
>> - hosts: admin2
>> gather_facts: false
>> sudo: yes
>>
>> tasks:
>> - nagios: action=downtime minutes=10 author="Dimitri Yioulos"
>> service=host host={{item}}
>> with_items:
>> - talk
>> when: reboot_hint.reboot_required == true
>> delegate_to: admin2
>> - nagios: action=downtime minutes=20 author="Dimitri Yioulos"
>> service=all host={{item}}
>> with_items:
>> - talk
>> when: reboot_hint.reboot_required == true
>> delegate_to: admin2
>> tags:
>> - nagios_downtime
>>
>> - hosts: talk
>> gather_facts: false
>>
>> tasks:
>> - name: reboot server
>> raw: 'cmd /c shutdown /r /t 0'
>> when: reboot_hint.reboot_required == true
>>
>> This is another of my Ansible 101 questions; help making it work is
>> appreciated!
>>
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