The goalpost keeps moving! Is this (the six lines of data below) from
one column of an Excel sheet? From what you described before, I expected
|Linux hostname00 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 Linux hostname01
4.13.2-120.el8.x86_64 Linux hostname03 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 Linux
hostname04 4.13.2-120.el8.x86_64 [...etc...] |
But now I’m seeing two /identical/ lines following that pattern, mixed
with other lines we’ve not heard about before, and nothing to map the
“^Linux” lines to actual hosts' names.
Or is the “Expected value” one column heading, while “Installed
Packeages” [sic] is a second column heading and it just got stuck under
the first b/c it was exported from Excel as a .txt file? But which
host(s) are the Installed Packages matched up with, and how? Or maybe
there’s a separate sheet per host in the Excel workbook? It looks like
it didn’t survive exporting from Excel particularly well.
And, now that I’m seeing the “Installed Packeages” bit, I’m expecting
that to turn into one or more Ansible “package” module steps, in which
case there’s some other non-trivial work ahead to transform this
requirements-as-spreadsheet into actionable Ansible yaml inputs, in
which case the prior exercise is probably moot.
I really want this to work for you. Perhaps it would be helpful to
provide the input data spreadsheet as provided by the customer before
it’s undergone exporting or other transformations. Although I understand
if you need to obfuscate hostnames. If you do, don’t change them all to
the same string. Are the two instances of “hostname” below really
literally “hostname” (and therefore identical), or do they stand in for
originally distinct hosts’ names? And how do those hosts map to sets of
installed packages?
On 1/4/22 11:24 AM, Marian Saldhana wrote:
For eg:
Expected value
Red Hat EnterpriseLinux release 8.2 (Ootpa)
Linux hostname 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
Linux hostname 4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64
Installed Packeages
FJSVsnap.noarch 7.00-1 @System
On Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 9:11:11 PM UTC+5:30 Marian Saldhana wrote:
Hi Todd,
Our customer has provided the values in a excel document
On Tue 4 Jan, 2022, 18:15 Todd Lewis, <[email protected]> wrote:
I just used a text editor ("ne", not that it matters) and
followed the example you provided.
How is your customer providing those values to you?
On 1/4/22 4:59 AM, Marian Saldhana wrote:
Hi Todd,
Can you please let me know how you have entered expected
values in customer-expects.txt ( in the sample playbook that
you had provided earlier )
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