# Archives **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/c/archives/31.md?page=509 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 510 --- ## [New VMWare Modules in v2.2](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-vmware-modules-in-v2-2/22956)
**Author:** [@Dylan\_Silva1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dylan_Silva1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-vmware-modules-in-v2-2/22956 "2017-03-02T16:15:35Z")
Hello all! In version 2.2, we released three new VMWare modules and we’d like some feedback. vmware\_guest vmware\_local\_user\_manager vmware\_vmotion And just to mention, there are 18 other VMWare modules that could use… --- ## [Ansible 2.2.0.0 does not have problems with tab spaces within playbooks ?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-2-0-0-does-not-have-problems-with-tab-spaces-within-playbooks/23866)
**Author:** [@ishan\_jain](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ishan_jain)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-2-2-0-0-does-not-have-problems-with-tab-spaces-within-playbooks/23866 "2017-03-02T15:38:35Z")
I was working on Ansible version 2.2.0.0 and my playbook was working fine. I installed a new Ansible host with version 2.2.1.0 and executed the exact same playbook but this time i encountered some problems. After investi… --- ## [module (redhat\_subscription) is missing interpreter line](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-redhat-subscription-is-missing-interpreter-line/23865)
**Author:** [@stack4cl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/stack4cl)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/module-redhat-subscription-is-missing-interpreter-line/23865 "2017-03-02T14:32:58Z")
Imported ansible redhat\_subscription module from the Git hub and created a play book using this module . While running that play book I'm getting error- " fatal: \[10.224.2.42\]: FAILED! =\> {"failed": true, "msg": "modu… --- ## [ansible noob trying to ping hosts in hosts file](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-noob-trying-to-ping-hosts-in-hosts-file/20679)
**Author:** [@markpattisondev](https://forum.ansible.com/u/markpattisondev)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-noob-trying-to-ping-hosts-in-hosts-file/20679 "2017-03-02T11:45:29Z")
Hi there. I just installed ansible on ubuntu 15 and am going through the getting started documentation found here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro\_getting\_started.html I’ve added two servers to my hosts file… but… --- ## [winrm retries and timeout](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-retries-and-timeout/23861)
**Author:** [@konstantin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/konstantin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-retries-and-timeout/23861 "2017-03-02T09:50:22Z")
is it possible to configure winrm connection with timeout and retries? for shh there is timeout, and retries settings in ansible config. But they are not applied when connection is winrm --- ## [Ansible Get\_url module response HTTP Bad Request](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-get-url-module-response-http-bad-request/23853)
**Author:** [@Shyam\_Yenna](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shyam_Yenna)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 2, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-get-url-module-response-http-bad-request/23853 "2017-03-02T08:51:46Z")
I am implementing below task and it throwing me HTTP Error: 400 Bad Request FAILED! =\> { “changed”: false, “dest”: “/tmp”, “failed”: true, “gid”: 0, “group”: “root”, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “backup”: fa… --- ## [docker\_container recreate doesn't seem to work](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-container-recreate-doesnt-seem-to-work/23856)
**Author:** [@MartinBBG](https://forum.ansible.com/u/MartinBBG)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/docker-container-recreate-doesnt-seem-to-work/23856 "2017-03-01T22:02:56Z")
I have an docker\_container that creates a container with state started (lets called this docker container Service). It has a volume\_from another container (lets call that container Volume). When the Volume container chan… --- ## [Play recap data](https://forum.ansible.com/t/play-recap-data/23855)
**Author:** [@ansible\_starter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ansible_starter)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/play-recap-data/23855 "2017-03-01T17:44:41Z")
Hi,I ran the following playbook with two tasks. The play recap summary shows 3 OK and 2 changed. Is the OK tab the net amount of tasks which didn't fail(OK+Changed)? I was under the impression it was the number of tas… --- ## [Ansible play recap doubt](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-play-recap-doubt/23854)
**Author:** [@ansible\_starter](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ansible_starter)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-play-recap-doubt/23854 "2017-03-01T17:35:10Z")
In the play recap(summary) does the OK tab means the “total number of tasks which were not changed + which were changed”. In other words, the tasks which didn’t fail? I was under the impression it was the tasks which di… --- ## [Need help creating an Azure service principal for ansible. Redirect URI for ansible ?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-creating-an-azure-service-principal-for-ansible-redirect-uri-for-ansible/23299)
**Author:** [@Prasanna\_Dhandapani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prasanna_Dhandapani)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-creating-an-azure-service-principal-for-ansible-redirect-uri-for-ansible/23299 "2017-03-01T14:52:07Z")
Hello, I’m new to Ansible and I’m running into an issue with getting the “azure\_rm\_storageaccount” module in ansible to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Goal: I would like to manage our Azure resources in ou… --- ## [ansible shell calling maven exec fails](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-shell-calling-maven-exec-fails/23843)
**Author:** [@g.roberts](https://forum.ansible.com/u/g.roberts)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-shell-calling-maven-exec-fails/23843 "2017-03-01T09:36:20Z")
All, I would assume ansible would run a bash script exactly as if it were run from the CLI, but apparently not. Can any one help me understand the differences? I am using ansible shell to start a set of five long runni… --- ## [How to use regex to match a response using the expect module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-regex-to-match-a-response-using-the-expect-module/23834)
**Author:** [@David\_Williams1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Williams1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 1, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-regex-to-match-a-response-using-the-expect-module/23834 "2017-03-01T08:44:46Z")
I am stumped…I have been trying to use the expect module and format the expected response as a regex that can match multiple responses. I see posts all over where people are trying to match the response exactly and have … --- ## [ansible-pull, and upgrading ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-pull-and-upgrading-ansible/23849)
**Author:** [@Stephen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stephen_Tan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-pull-and-upgrading-ansible/23849 "2017-02-28T22:07:20Z")
Hi all I have an interesting situation which I think the very clever people here could probably help me with. Our use case for ansible: We use ansible pull which runs a local connection. It allows us to scale nicely … --- ## [Help with ios\_config and login banner](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-ios-config-and-login-banner/23848)
**Author:** [@Len\_Tucker](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Len_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-ios-config-and-login-banner/23848 "2017-02-28T21:21:35Z")
I am having a timeout issue with ios\_config and login banners. The playbook times out. Any help or examples of a working config would be appreciated. adminlen@len-nm-1:~/ansible$ ansible --version ansible 2.3.0 config… --- ## [Windows Working Group IRC meetings](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-working-group-irc-meetings/23847)
**Author:** [@Matt\_Davis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Matt_Davis)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-working-group-irc-meetings/23847 "2017-02-28T20:12:03Z")
We’re pleased to announce that the Ansible Windows Working Group will begin biweekly IRC meetings in the Freenode #ansible-meeting channel on March 13/14, 2017 (depending on your time zone). This will be a regular develo… --- ## [Windows Working Group IRC meetings](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-working-group-irc-meetings/23846)
**Author:** [@Matt\_Davis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Matt_Davis)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-working-group-irc-meetings/23846 "2017-02-28T19:52:11Z")
We’re pleased to announce that the Ansible Windows Working Group will begin biweekly IRC meetings in the Freenode #ansible-meeting channel on March 13/14, 2017 (depending on your time zone). This will be a regular develo… --- ## [Need help with deprecation warnings](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-deprecation-warnings/22425)
**Author:** [@ayush.kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ayush.kumar)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/need-help-with-deprecation-warnings/22425 "2017-02-28T18:48:30Z")
Hey all, Just trying to figure out how to fix the deprecation warnings (recently updated to 2.1.1.0 from 1.7). I used to have the 4 individual tasks in the block below (I left the commented out when statements from the … --- ## [Variables and templates between roles](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-and-templates-between-roles/23844)
**Author:** [@gforster](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gforster)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-and-templates-between-roles/23844 "2017-02-28T18:23:38Z")
I may be way off in the way I’m trying to accomplish this, but I think I need to pass variables from one role to another. I am setting up svn on a Suse server. I’m using the geerlingguy.apache and a rather modified geer… --- ## ["when" and "with\_items" again, with a twist](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-and-with-items-again-with-a-twist/21855)
**Author:** [@henrique.rodrigues](https://forum.ansible.com/u/henrique.rodrigues)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-and-with-items-again-with-a-twist/21855 "2017-02-28T17:06:49Z")
Hi, I’m getting an error when using “when” and “with\_items” together. As I’ve read many times, this happens because “when” runs inside “with\_items”, so we can use “| default()” to bypass the error, but I think I found a… --- ## [Passing to a module a list of values](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-to-a-module-a-list-of-values/23842)
**Author:** [@stephane](https://forum.ansible.com/u/stephane)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/passing-to-a-module-a-list-of-values/23842 "2017-02-28T16:54:45Z")
Hello, I’m currently trying to create a module to manage poudriere (which is a tool to manage package repository for FreeBSD). When I use the pkgng module this way, the command pkgng is actually called once, and the “n… --- ## [Action Plugins and Async Support](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-and-async-support/23223)
**Author:** [@Mumshad\_Mannambeth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mumshad_Mannambeth)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-and-async-support/23223 "2017-02-28T16:41:59Z")
I have two questions about action\_plugins: I wrote a custom ansible module that by default has async support. I wrote an action plugin for it like below. Now I get error - async mode is not supported for this module. A… --- ## [Dynamically include vaulted vars within playbook only for certain hosts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamically-include-vaulted-vars-within-playbook-only-for-certain-hosts/23791)
**Author:** [@Pete\_Albrecht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pete_Albrecht)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamically-include-vaulted-vars-within-playbook-only-for-certain-hosts/23791 "2017-02-28T16:25:37Z")
Greetings! I’m trying to figure out the best way to dynamically include vaulted vars files in a playbook only for certain hosts. The situation is I’m building out production and pre-prod environments from a common playb… --- ## [Can we rely on play variables being re-calculated/re-templated for each host in a play?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-we-rely-on-play-variables-being-re-calculated-re-templated-for-each-host-in-a-play/22115)
**Author:** [@Jonathan\_Strootman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Strootman)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-we-rely-on-play-variables-being-re-calculated-re-templated-for-each-host-in-a-play/22115 "2017-02-28T16:19:22Z")
Hello, I know that you can, but it seems ambiguous on whether one should. For example: There is a role named “role\_1”, which has templated variables in both “defaults/main.yml” and “vars/main.yml”. I could create a p… --- ## [Syntax Error while loading YAML.](https://forum.ansible.com/t/syntax-error-while-loading-yaml/23837)
**Author:** [@Pankaj\_Navneet](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pankaj_Navneet)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/syntax-error-while-loading-yaml/23837 "2017-02-28T14:49:08Z")
Hi All, I have written a YAML to install Nginx on my AWS Slave server. But every time i got below error while running my playbook. I googled to resolve this issue, but unable to do so. Can you guys help me in sorting wh… --- ## [Multiple users running ansible on the same host causes blocking](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-users-running-ansible-on-the-same-host-causes-blocking/23832)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Martin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andrew_Martin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-users-running-ansible-on-the-same-host-causes-blocking/23832 "2017-02-28T14:11:42Z")
I am running Ansible 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04. When I have more than one user running a playbook on hosts all from this same server, I sometimes observe this behavior: user 1 starts running a playbook on host A, playbook … --- ## [Using win\_iis\_webapppool to update application pool attributes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-win-iis-webapppool-to-update-application-pool-attributes/23012)
**Author:** [@philip\_shangguan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/philip_shangguan1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-win-iis-webapppool-to-update-application-pool-attributes/23012 "2017-02-28T13:46:59Z")
I am trying to config .NET application pool and I need to change the “Identity” to use “Custom account” and then enter the user name and password. It seems I can not find the correct attribute names to use in the playboo… --- ## [Ansible doesn't fail when no host found using ec2.py](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-doesnt-fail-when-no-host-found-using-ec2-py/23841)
**Author:** [@irfad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/irfad)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-doesnt-fail-when-no-host-found-using-ec2-py/23841 "2017-02-28T12:38:27Z")
Sometimes (not very often) Ansible doesn't pick the dynamic inventory ip using ec2.py and when it happens usually it should fail the job, but instead it will SUCCESS the task which prevents us from notifying that the tas… --- ## [EDX Instal Error : Populate countries](https://forum.ansible.com/t/edx-instal-error-populate-countries/23840)
**Author:** [@Luke\_Duffy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luke_Duffy)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/edx-instal-error-populate-countries/23840 "2017-02-28T10:18:25Z")
Hi In an attempt to get ecommerce working I find I cant even instal edx any more. Step 1 Install ubuntu 16.04, using all defaults (except add Open SSH) Step 2 run the commands: sudo apt-get update -y sudo apt-get up… --- ## [using ansible when sftp is not available](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-when-sftp-is-not-available/21093)
**Author:** [@Craig\_Wilson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Craig_Wilson)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-ansible-when-sftp-is-not-available/21093 "2017-02-28T07:46:17Z")
Hi all We are looking into ansible and one of the things we would like to do is issue a few commands to some storage appliances that we have. They are looked down and as such we can not access sftp or even scp just ssh … --- ## [Error: Failure trying to run: chroot /var/cache/pbuilder/build/24081/. mount -t proc proc /proc](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-failure-trying-to-run-chroot-var-cache-pbuilder-build-24081-mount-t-proc-proc-proc/23836)
**Author:** [@Dave\_Kasberg](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dave_Kasberg)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 28, 2017, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-failure-trying-to-run-chroot-var-cache-pbuilder-build-24081-mount-t-proc-proc-proc/23836 "2017-02-28T06:09:08Z")
When doing a ‘make deb’, more specifically ‘make DEB\_DIST=trusty deb’ I get the error shown in the subject line. Does anyone know what may be causing this? Snippet of the output from the make. See the lines highlighted … [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/c/archives/31.md?page=508) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/c/archives/31.md?page=510)