Ansible is really designed to put a system configuration into a state, so checking for a possible state is a bit trickier.
But, you could run the playbook in check-only mode, then register the result of the change, then use the results "changed" flag in your script to get the report. For instance, in check-only mode you can say "inbalancer=absent" then any that register "changed == true" you know are not absent, and any that are "changed == false", you know are already absent. This is harder if your state has multiple possibilities (e.g. network port speeds: 10Mbit, 100Mbit, 1Gbit, 10Gbit), but still do-able with the external script. Dan On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 8:39:55 AM UTC-5, Ed Greenberg wrote: > > Hi, I have an ansible module that adds and removes servers from the load > balancer. If I do: > > ansible localhost -m modulename -a 'servername=foo inbalancer=present' > > it adds the module to the load balancer and reports changed if it wasn't > there before, and not changed if it was already there. > > Same for 'inbalancer=absent' It takes the server out of the load balancer > and reports changed or not changed. > > So I know if the server is in the balancer when I start through this > section of the code. > > I'd like to have the module set a variable that can be (a) reported on the > output and (b) tested for in a playbook. I'm more interested in reporting, > so I can have a shell script that reports the state of my load balancer and > all it's servers. > > After much reading, I think I need to ask for an approach. > > Thanks, > > Ed Greenbert > > > > > > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d487375e-b077-4dbe-8c09-3488c1312803%40googlegroups.com.
