Thanks, the solution was to add " delegate_to: "{{ nagios_server }}"".
I've never seen the 'delegate_to' directive but once added, that fixed
everything.
Thanks,On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:56 AM dramaley <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's what i do. > > - name: Schedule Nagios downtime > nagios: action=downtime minutes=20 service="{{ item }}" > host="{{ inventory_hostname }}" author="Ansible Bot" > comment="Planned maintenance" > delegate_to: "{{ nagios_server }}" > with_items: > - host > - all > > I have {{nagios_server}} set to the name of the server that runs Nagios. > Make sure you use {{inventory_hostname}}; in your post you wrote > {{inventor_hostname}}, which is most likely not defined and won't work. > > > On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 1:51:36 PM UTC-5, Douglas Thompson wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to the Ansible nagios module to schedule downtime. In the >> documentation it says for 'host' to use '{{ inventor_hostname }}'. I'm >> assuming this is an internal variable that gets the host name from the >> inventory file. This is not working. Not only that but we only have one >> nagios server, which is where the commands apparently need to be executed >> in order to schedule the downtime. >> >> So, my question is: how do you setup the playbook to execute on the >> nagios server but use the hosts listed in the inventory file to schedule >> the downtime? As of right now the only way I've been able to do this is to >> create an extra-vars files and populate that with the hosts names, but this >> becomes cumbersome. >> Any thoughts? >> Thank you, >> > -- > 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/e8b19f87-87fe-4ee5-a540-d7cddca61b15%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e8b19f87-87fe-4ee5-a540-d7cddca61b15%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Douglas Thompson --- Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? - Patrick Henry -- 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/CAPR%3DG0k7YWHD2Spp%2BA9wiM02PxYzQtM9_dPn1%3DTZMBPutegdYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
