Additional information after more testing. All seems to work if I use
--limit instead of -i.
I.e.:
This works:
ansible-playbook -k first_playbook_ext_ios2.yml --limit csr1
This does not work:
ansible-playbook -i csr1, first_playbook_ext_ios2.yml -k
Is this expected behavior? Any pointers or doc links on what I'm missing
in terms of differences between the two options above?
Thank you!
On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 4:11:21 PM UTC-4 EE1 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I seem to be having an issue defining a variables in my
> /etc/ansible/hosts. When I run a playbook against a host in my inventory,
> it seems the variable are not read based on the error messages. For
> example, here it seems to not see the network os variable:
>
> ansible-playbook -i csr1, first_playbook_ext_ios2.yml
>
> PLAY [Network Getting Started First Playbook - Change Hostname]
> ****************************************************************************************************************
>
> TASK [Get old config for ios devices]
> ******************************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [csr1]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unable to automatically determine host
> network os. Please manually configure ansible_network_os value for this
> host"}
>
> PLAY RECAP
> *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> csr1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0
> failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
>
> Even though the variable is defined and shows up in ansible-inventory:
>
> ansible-inventory --host csr1
> {
> "ansible_become": true,
> "ansible_become_method": "enable",
> "ansible_become_password": "cisco",
> "ansible_host": "192.168.1.73",
> "ansible_network_os": "ios",
> "ansible_user": "admin"
> }
>
> Here is the hosts file:
>
> cat /etc/ansible/hosts
> ---
> nxos:
> hosts:
> nxos1:
> ansible_host: 192.168.1.71
> nxos2:
> ansible_host: 192.168.1.72
> vars:
> ansible_network_os: nxos
>
> ios:
> hosts:
> csr1:
> ansible_host: 192.168.1.73
> vars:
> ansible_network_os: ios
> ansible_become: yes
> ansible_become_method: enable
> ansible_become_password: cisco
>
> network:
> children:
> ios:
> nxos:
> vars:
> ansible_user: admin
>
>
> If I set the os variable manually at the command line, then it seems to
> fail on the name alias part:
>
> ansible-playbook -i csr1, first_playbook_ext_ios2.yml -e
> ansible_network_os=ios
>
> PLAY [Network Getting Started First Playbook - Change Hostname]
> ****************************************************************************************************************
>
> TASK [Get old config for ios devices]
> ******************************************************************************************************************************************
> fatal: [csr1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "[Errno -3] Temporary
> failure in name resolution"}
>
> PLAY RECAP
> *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
> csr1 : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0
> failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
>
> Is something obvious wrong with my inventory file? Anything else this
> newbie is overlooking?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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