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## [Providing Progress for Long running tasks which do not support Async](https://forum.ansible.com/t/providing-progress-for-long-running-tasks-which-do-not-support-async/33594)

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**Author:** [@ASHWIN\_KUMAR\_NAIK](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ASHWIN_KUMAR_NAIK)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/providing-progress-for-long-running-tasks-which-do-not-support-async/33594 "2020-08-12T18:59:35Z")

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Hi, I am running playbooks via an ssh command. The issue is when a long-running task is run in the playbook the ssh client gives a broken pipe error and quits. Tweaking SSH client by adding ServerAliveInterval 30 & Ser…

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## [AWX fetching aws service information](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-fetching-aws-service-information/33596)

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**Author:** [@hashim\_vayalar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/hashim_vayalar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-fetching-aws-service-information/33596 "2020-08-12T14:03:41Z")

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Hey, I configured my AWX server on one of my aws account. I have multiple AWS accounts. I need to fetch some of my aws account hosted zone lists from AWX server. Dynamic Inventory and AWS communication working with ass…

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## [vmware\_migrate\_vmk: vim.fault.ResourceNotAvailable](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-migrate-vmk-vim-fault-resourcenotavailable/33595)

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**Author:** [@Stefan\_Jakobs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stefan_Jakobs)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-migrate-vmk-vim-fault-resourcenotavailable/33595 "2020-08-12T13:26:48Z")

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Hi, after initial installation of an ESXi host I need to migrate the vmk0 interface (with the management address) from vSwitch0 to dVS dvs.test01, but the vmware\_migrate\_vmk module failed with “vim.fault.ResourceNotAvai…

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## [Setting Conditionals with Output](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-conditionals-with-output/33586)

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**Author:** [@James\_Hixon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Hixon)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/setting-conditionals-with-output/33586 "2020-08-12T12:12:08Z")

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New at Ansible and still trying to get the hang of setting conditional based upon output. I am setting Windows file shares with the below task. The initial run works fine; however, when you repeat the task, it fails sta…

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## [ignore\_unreachable statement does not work with block/rescue?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-unreachable-statement-does-not-work-with-block-rescue/33588)

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**Author:** [@Peter\_Gebirgslok](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Peter_Gebirgslok)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-unreachable-statement-does-not-work-with-block-rescue/33588 "2020-08-12T11:01:27Z")

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Hello guys, I’m trying to check if the server is still reachable with a block -rescue statement. If the server is no longer available, the rescue statement should do something. This is basically the simple playbook:

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## [Fetching Register variables content to email](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fetching-register-variables-content-to-email/33583)

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**Author:** [@harsh\_chawda](https://forum.ansible.com/u/harsh_chawda)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fetching-register-variables-content-to-email/33583 "2020-08-12T11:01:03Z")

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Hello Everyone, Is there anyway to fetch the content of register variable I defined in my playbook , after the job is successfully executed in AWX. hosts: windows tasks: name: Search-only, return list of updates fou…

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## [how to compare lists whose elements are regular expressions in Ansible?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-compare-lists-whose-elements-are-regular-expressions-in-ansible/33591)

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**Author:** [@Pushparaj\_Gothandam](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pushparaj_Gothandam)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-compare-lists-whose-elements-are-regular-expressions-in-ansible/33591 "2020-08-12T09:52:43Z")

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Hi Team I wish to compare two lists, one list has regex expression and the second has ordinary data and return a match. Please help e.g. list1: - linux.\* - 6.\* - mysql|python|gvim list2: - linux - 6.0…

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## [fortigate / fortinet](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fortigate-fortinet/32866)

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**Author:** [@Andrew\_Meyer1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_Meyer1)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fortigate-fortinet/32866 "2020-08-12T09:26:14Z")

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Has anyone gotten a fortinet/fortigate playbook to work? I have a Fortigate 100D running 6.2.2 and I can’t get it to pass an ansible ping.

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## [Find VLAN in a range of VLAN (930-932)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/find-vlan-in-a-range-of-vlan-930-932/33590)

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**Author:** [@Spiro\_Mitsialis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Spiro_Mitsialis)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/find-vlan-in-a-range-of-vlan-930-932/33590 "2020-08-12T09:03:33Z")

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Using various methods, I can get a list of VLAN on a switch port. The list looks like the following: “vlans”: “1,134,170,175,540,605,819-820,911-912,930-932,945,952,955,959-960,1200-1201,1400” I would like to check to …

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## [ansibot starts auto-closing collection issues and pull requests in ansible/ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansibot-starts-auto-closing-collection-issues-and-pull-requests-in-ansible-ansible/33592)

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**Author:** [@Martin\_Krizek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_Krizek)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 12, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansibot-starts-auto-closing-collection-issues-and-pull-requests-in-ansible-ansible/33592 "2020-08-12T07:02:05Z")

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Greetings Ansible Community, The change \[0\] to enable ansibot \[1\] to auto-close issues and PRs that have the \`needs\_collection\_redirect\` label \[2\] in ansible/ansible repository was just merged. In addition to closing,…

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## [Ansible failing to manage influxdb](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-to-manage-influxdb/33585)

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**Author:** [@Miroslav\_Todorovic](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Miroslav_Todorovic)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failing-to-manage-influxdb/33585 "2020-08-11T20:07:20Z")

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I am facing issue with managing inflluxdb on remote host using influxdb\_database module. name: Create database influxdb\_database: hostname: localhost database\_name: miroslav It is failing with following error: “Im…

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## [whitelist callback plugin](https://forum.ansible.com/t/whitelist-callback-plugin/33571)

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**Author:** [@Jerry\_Hwang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jerry_Hwang)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/whitelist-callback-plugin/33571 "2020-08-11T14:19:55Z")

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I am working on callback plugin https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/callback.html and found I can control to whitelist a specific callback plugin like this way in a playbook run. ANSIBLE\_CALLBACK\_WHITELIST=…

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## [AWS EFS](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-efs/33581)

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**Author:** [@sandy.hung](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sandy.hung)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-efs/33581 "2020-08-11T07:46:01Z")

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Hi all, I run efs playbook ,but show error message, I don’t what happen I run other machine is ok , it’s python version problem? The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ans…

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## [How To Export Tower Inventory Host & Group List](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-export-tower-inventory-host-group-list/33502)

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**Author:** [@Marcus\_Hayhurst](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marcus_Hayhurst)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-export-tower-inventory-host-group-list/33502 "2020-08-11T06:49:19Z")

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Hello everyone, Is there a way to export my Tower (3.7.0) Inventory? I need to get a list of every host and it’s corresponding group in a CSV (if possible). I see this documentation but I do not see how I can get the in…

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## [Announcing AWX 14.0.0](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-14-0-0/33562)

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**Author:** [@rpetrell](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rpetrell)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/announcing-awx-14-0-0/33562 "2020-08-11T05:25:51Z")

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Hello everyone, We are very happy to announce a new major version of AWX, 14.0.0! Here are some of the notable changes from the official changelog (https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md):

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## [\[Ansible Beginner Question\]: Using Ansible to Provision VMs on AWS, Anyone?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-beginner-question-using-ansible-to-provision-vms-on-aws-anyone/33579)

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**Author:** [@Kenny](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kenny)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-beginner-question-using-ansible-to-provision-vms-on-aws-anyone/33579 "2020-08-11T05:06:48Z")

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Hello Everyone, I would appreciate any pointer to a project/s that deals with the above topic , please. Much Appreciated Kenny +1 240 714-2372

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## [copy module failing  path has wildcard ?????](https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-module-failing-path-has-wildcard/33557)

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**Author:** [@sai\_kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sai_kumar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/copy-module-failing-path-has-wildcard/33557 "2020-08-10T22:32:08Z")

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Hi, I am trying to copy a file from one location to other with copy module, on remote server /puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-782078/chrome-linux to /usr/local/sbin linux.chrom\_dir = /puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-7…

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## [nice/ionice a module on target server](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nice-ionice-a-module-on-target-server/33577)

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**Author:** [@WK1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/WK1)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/nice-ionice-a-module-on-target-server/33577 "2020-08-10T17:51:26Z")

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I have tried googling but have failed. We use ansible to upgrade a fleet of VMs. Some of them are fairly small and apt in particular seems to really bog them down (yum/dnf isn’t that bad) if we ssh in to the target we …

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## [play book execution error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/play-book-execution-error/33576)

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**Author:** [@A11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/A11)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/play-book-execution-error/33576 "2020-08-10T16:23:46Z")

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Hi Mates, I am getting below error while executing playbook for a new server that needs to be added . TASK \[krb5\_workstation : install krb5\_workstation package from rhel-x86\_64-server-7-datacenter\] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*…

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## [Installing ansible on Windows 10](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-ansible-on-windows-10/33565)

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**Author:** [@Charles\_Leviton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Charles_Leviton)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-ansible-on-windows-10/33565 "2020-08-10T14:24:26Z")

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Hi I watched the Ansible for dev ops Youtube video and following instructions therein tried to install ansible on windows 10 machine using pip install ansible I am running python 3.8.5 after I got this message “A requ…

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## [Ansible IOS gather facts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ios-gather-facts/33575)

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**Author:** [@Zaldy\_B](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Zaldy_B)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-ios-gather-facts/33575 "2020-08-10T09:47:42Z")

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HI guys / experts, Have you tried gathering ios facts and when it is satisfied, it will gather another facts using the output of the first facts? Dont know if this is possible. Thank you.

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## [ansible foreman callback plugin](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-foreman-callback-plugin/33572)

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**Author:** [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-foreman-callback-plugin/33572 "2020-08-10T08:41:35Z")

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Hi I have setup the plugin for forman https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theforeman/foreman\_ansible/master/extras/foreman\_callback.py Also install below on ansible control node yum install -y python-pip pip install r…

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## [FAILED! =\> {"censored": "the output has been hidden due to the fact that 'no\_log: true' was specified for this result", "changed": false}](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-censored-the-output-has-been-hidden-due-to-the-fact-that-no-log-true-was-specified-for-this-result-changed-false/33573)

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**Author:** [@anilkumar\_panditi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anilkumar_panditi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-censored-the-output-has-been-hidden-due-to-the-fact-that-no-log-true-was-specified-for-this-result-changed-false/33573 "2020-08-10T07:47:46Z")

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Hello, My playbook has following github module , which is failing with error FAILED! =\> {“censored”: “the output has been hidden due to the fact that ‘no\_log: true’ was specified for this result”, “changed”: false} code…

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## [Is there a strategy that runs on X hosts as fast as possible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-a-strategy-that-runs-on-x-hosts-as-fast-as-possible/33570)

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**Author:** [@Igor\_Gnatenko](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Igor_Gnatenko)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/is-there-a-strategy-that-runs-on-x-hosts-as-fast-as-possible/33570 "2020-08-09T17:48:31Z")

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Basically I am looking for something like parallel -jX linux command. At any time it runs up to X threads with a command. I noticed that serial: 2 with any strategy will wait for play to run on these 2 hosts and only af…

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## [acme\_certificate account\_key\* support for sectigo CA](https://forum.ansible.com/t/acme-certificate-account-key-support-for-sectigo-ca/33420)

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**Author:** [@Victor\_Olivo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Victor_Olivo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/acme-certificate-account-key-support-for-sectigo-ca/33420 "2020-08-09T14:54:13Z")

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Hello, sectigo is my SSL provider and they support the ACME protocol and I’d like to leverage the acme\_certificate module; however, Sectigo seems to use and HMAC key for authentication rather than RSA keys. is it possib…

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## [Privilege escalation error when running a sudo command on AWS Ubuntu machine](https://forum.ansible.com/t/privilege-escalation-error-when-running-a-sudo-command-on-aws-ubuntu-machine/33568)

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**Author:** [@lovesh\_harchandani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/lovesh_harchandani)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/privilege-escalation-error-when-running-a-sudo-command-on-aws-ubuntu-machine/33568 "2020-08-08T06:50:06Z")

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Hi. I am trying to install a package on an AWS Ubuntu machine using ansible and getting error FAILED! =\> {“msg”: "Timeout (42s) waiting for privilege escalation prompt: "} I have tried with high timeouts as suggested …

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## [Ansible- libselinux-python Error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-libselinux-python-error/33569)

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**Author:** [@Nagesh\_sheregar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nagesh_sheregar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 8, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-libselinux-python-error/33569 "2020-08-08T01:34:47Z")

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Hi Team, i am getting bellow error: i can see libselinux-python installed but i am getting below error not sure why \[root@s605141sl7vl402 ansible\]# rpm -qa | grep libselinux-python libselinux-python-2.5-15.el7.x86\_64 …

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## [Filter plugin to convert executed command output to JSON](https://forum.ansible.com/t/filter-plugin-to-convert-executed-command-output-to-json/33522)

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**Author:** [@Kelly\_Brazil](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kelly_Brazil)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/filter-plugin-to-convert-executed-command-output-to-json/33522 "2020-08-07T17:40:37Z")

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Hi everyone! I’m not a day-to-day user of Ansible, but I am the developer of a tool called JC that JSONifies the output of many commands and file-types and I got some feedback that it might be good to integrate JC into …

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## [SAML configuration](https://forum.ansible.com/t/saml-configuration/33305)

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**Author:** [@Bart\_Heerman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bart_Heerman)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/saml-configuration/33305 "2020-08-07T14:58:18Z")

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Hello, I try to configure SAML authentication using AzureAD. Until now, it partially works. I can log on, but most of the configuration does not work. The problems I have are: the username in the top right corner is m…

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## [Ansible on Azure Pipelines](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-azure-pipelines/33567)

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**Author:** [@Swapna\_Priya](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Swapna_Priya)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-azure-pipelines/33567 "2020-08-07T13:53:32Z")

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Has anyone used Ansible in Azure pipelines? I am using a simple ping command to connect to a VM. It throws an error that it is unreachable.

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