H ello,

I did look at magic variables and i was not able to get what i wanted...
i basically want to get hostname which is of type secondary from group1 ... 
so that i can store it in a var and use elsewhere...

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 10:36:52 AM UTC+5:30 [email protected] 
wrote:

> HI Saranya,
>
> If i didn't misunderstood, would you like to make use of inbuilt special 
> variables to get hostname as - inventory_hostname, inventory_hostname_short 
> which directly gives you hostname value and it can be stored in variable or 
> printed using debug module.
>
> PS :- You can also make use of facts to get hostname -> parse it -> store 
> value in variable.
>
> Cheers,
> Parth
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:29 AM Saranya N <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I need to get the hostname as a variable in my playbook
>>
>> I have the inventory defined the inventory like below
>>
>> [group1]
>> host1.vs.com type=secondary servertype=vm
>> host2.vs.com type=primary servertype=vm
>>
>> [group2]
>> host4.vs.com type=primary servertype=physical
>> host3.vs.com type=secondary servertype=physical
>>
>> I run my playbook with --limit option always so using ansible_limit I'm 
>> able to get the variable name of the group.
>>
>> now depending  on the group i need to get the hostname which is secondary 
>> as a variable.
>>  id if --limit is group1, I need host1.vs.com as a  var...how can i do 
>> that?
>>
>> any help is appreciated, thank you
>>
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