this is the maximum allocated run time set for the task

in your example:


- run  the simulated long running task for a max of 45 s (in the case of
long running task, you do not want it to run for ever)
- poll status every 5 second (so every 5 seconds there is to check the
status like whether the task ended )

in my case I should have set async to 2 o 3 but it does not really matter
as I do not wait at all (poll 0)


HTH
Phil


2017-07-12 8:18 GMT+02:00 Luvpreet Singh <[email protected]>:

> Thanks Philippe,
>
> "Poll - 0" means that never check the status as the connection will be
> broken. What does "async - 1" means  ?
>
> Can you explain this example to me ?
>
>   - name: simulate long running op (15 sec), wait for up to 45 sec, poll 
> every 5 sec
>     command: /bin/sleep 15
>     async: 45
>     poll: 5
>
> What does async : 45 means here ?
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 10:51:00 PM UTC+5:30, Philippe Eveque wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> here is an example: trigger a reboot (no need to wait)
>>
>> do not wait for task completion -  poll:0
>> you cannot wait in that case as the System will reboot breaking the ssh
>> connection.
>>
>>
>>
>> - name: Reboot the system
>>   shell: sleep 2 && shutdown -r now "Ansible reboot triggered"
>>   async: 1
>>   poll: 0
>>
>> another example would be to trigger an action that take a long time but
>> you don't care about the result
>> like: recursively delete a whole hierarchy of directories/files on a
>> system
>>
>>
>> hope this help.
>>
>>
>> 2017-07-11 16:01 GMT+02:00 Luvpreet Singh <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> I have read the asynchronous actions and polling in Ansible docs. But I
>>> could not understand it.
>>>
>>> I understand that poll means the time interval after which the status of
>>> the job will be checked.
>>>
>>> I think Async means the interval for which to keep the connection open.
>>> If yes, What will happen after the connection is closed ? Will the task be
>>> completed ?
>>>
>>> And I really did not understand the fire and forget tasks.
>>>
>>> Can somebody please make it a bit clearer with the help of an easy
>>> example ?
>>>
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