I'm new to Ansible too, so take this explanation with a grain of salt!
My understanding of "with_items" is that it takes a list. The loop iterates
over the list, referring to the current element as "item".
So inside your loop, you should refer to "item" (not "items"!)) which on
each iteration will be replaced by the next element from the list called
"dits".
Something like this:
- name: lsvob
shell: /usr/atria/bin/cleartool lsvob | grep -i {{ item }}
args:
chdir: "/home/vobadmin"
with_items: "{{ dits }}"
I'm not sure what that shell command is doing, so can't comment on whether
it is correct for your purpose.
Regards, K.
On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Saranya N <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kai ,
>
> Thankyou for your response but unfortunately it still doesn't work for me.
>
> It still doesn’t work. Sorry, I’m very new to ansible and just started
> working on it.
>
>
>
> I get below error:
>
>
>
> task path: /home/dev_user/ansible_test/ansible_dev/clearcase/
> playbooks/testdump.yml:20
>
> ok: [aaa.com] => {
>
> "ansible_facts": {
>
> "localvar": {
>
> "vobs": [
>
> "/project/vob_solaris_test.vbs",
>
> "/project/vob_solaris_test22.vbs"
>
> ]
>
> }
>
> },
>
> "changed": false
>
> }
>
>
>
> TASK [lsvob] ************************************************************
> ************************************************************
> **************************************************************************
>
> task path: /home/dev_user/ansible_test/ansible_dev/clearcase/
> playbooks/testdump.yml:32
>
> fatal: [aaa.com]: FAILED! => {
>
> "failed": true,
>
> "msg": "the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to
> include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'items' is
> undefined\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/dev_user/ansible_test/
> ansible_dev/clearcase/playbooks/testdump.yml': line 32, column 5, but
> may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe
> offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: lsvob\n ^ here\n"
>
> }
>
> to retry, use: --limit @/home/dev_user/ansible_test/
> ansible_dev/clearcase/playbooks/testdump.retry
>
>
>
> PLAY RECAP ************************************************************
> ***************************************************************
>
> aaa.com : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=1
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> my playbook lokks like below:
>
> ---
>
> - hosts: sol
>
> become: yes
>
> become_method: su
>
> become_user: vobadmin
>
> gather_facts: no
>
>
>
> tasks:
>
>
>
> - name: Load the variables
>
> include_vars:
>
> file: /home/a594588/ansible_test/ansible_dev/clearcase/
> inventories/NP/voblist.yml
>
> name: localvar
>
>
>
> - name: lsvob
>
> shell: /usr/atria/bin/cleartool lsvob | grep -i {{ items }}
>
> args:
>
> chdir: "/home/vobadmin"
>
> with_items: "{{ dits }}"
>
>
>
>
>
> I changed the contents of the include_vars file input file:
>
>
>
> cat /home/devuser/internproj/inventories/NP/voblist.yml
>
>
>
> dits:
>
>
>
> - /project/vob_solaris_test.vbs
>
> - /project/vob_solaris_test22.vbs
>
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