# Get Help **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6.md?page=79 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 80 --- ## [Redirecting (type: connection) when using ansible copy during build stage on Azure DevOps build server](https://forum.ansible.com/t/redirecting-type-connection-when-using-ansible-copy-during-build-stage-on-azure-devops-build-server/5044)
**Author:** [@waardd](https://forum.ansible.com/u/waardd)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/redirecting-type-connection-when-using-ansible-copy-during-build-stage-on-azure-devops-build-server/5044 "2024-04-22T13:48:03Z")
We are using a buildserver and agent to build a application within a conatiner (docker) Recently we swicthed between Azure projects and altough we seem to have the same configuration for the build servers, we are gettin… --- ## [Ansible Collection | dependencies between module options](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-collection-dependencies-between-module-options/5039)
**Author:** [@sumanth-lingappa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sumanth-lingappa)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-collection-dependencies-between-module-options/5039 "2024-04-22T05:28:22Z")
I the maintainer of netscaler.adc ansible collection. I am writing a module whose options have some dependency. Let us take options – proxy, username, password, token Only if proxy is true, username, password, token … --- ## [AWX DB size not decreasing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-db-size-not-decreasing/5058)
**Author:** [@vibhor\_agarwalin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vibhor_agarwalin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-db-size-not-decreasing/5058 "2024-04-22T03:54:24Z")
Hello Folks, Upgraded our AWX 15.0.1 to 23.9.0. It was a fresh install with DB migrated separately. After cleaning up lots of data, the size of DB isn’t decreasing. See both autovacuum & track\_counts are on. psql -U… --- ## [Issue with AWX EE and Connecting to vcenter](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-awx-ee-and-connecting-to-vcenter/5018)
**Author:** [@Vince6G](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vince6G)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-awx-ee-and-connecting-to-vcenter/5018 "2024-04-20T20:58:00Z")
Recently installed and configured AWX on K3s using the example from GitHub - kurokobo/awx-on-k3s: An example implementation of AWX on single node K3s using AWX Operator, with easy-to-use simplified configuration with own… --- ## [AWX smart inventory with Ansible Local Facts?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-smart-inventory-with-ansible-local-facts/5024)
**Author:** [@jpmens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-smart-inventory-with-ansible-local-facts/5024 "2024-04-20T14:17:03Z")
I’m a great fan of Ansible’s Local Facts which may stem from the fact that Seth and I had a few beers over the idea just before he wrote the code back in 2013. Yeah, that dates me. Anyhow, I’m trying to create an AWX sm… --- ## [Best place to assign roles to managed nodes](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-place-to-assign-roles-to-managed-nodes/4991)
**Author:** [@abdelhousni](https://forum.ansible.com/u/abdelhousni)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/best-place-to-assign-roles-to-managed-nodes/4991 "2024-04-20T08:44:39Z")
Hello team, sorry for a basic question. We acquired AAP for a limited number of licences and we plan to use with Satellite it to provision and manage our infrastructure (based on RHEL, VMware vSphere, Satellite/Foreman,… --- ## [AWX | Inventory Proxmox Error - hangs at "Processing JSON output..."](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-inventory-proxmox-error-hangs-at-processing-json-output/4994)
**Author:** [@bortastv](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bortastv)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-inventory-proxmox-error-hangs-at-processing-json-output/4994 "2024-04-20T08:13:35Z")
Hi together, we want to create a proxmox inventory with: plugin: community.general.proxmox url: https://10.0.40.1:8006/ user: ansible@pve password: validate\_certs: false want\_facts: true want\_proxmox\_nodes\_ansible\_ho… --- ## [How do I add a settings toggle option to AWX UI?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-add-a-settings-toggle-option-to-awx-ui/5025)
**Author:** [@Denney-tech](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Denney-tech)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-add-a-settings-toggle-option-to-awx-ui/5025 "2024-04-19T17:53:10Z")
How do I add customization settings to AWX UI? I want to add a toggleable boolean option to the MiscSystem page. I’ve added everything I think I need to my own awx fork and have deployed it with the custom setting co… --- ## [AWX console not accessible after configuring SSL certificates](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-console-not-accessible-after-configuring-ssl-certificates/5047)
**Author:** [@ashok453](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ashok453)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-console-not-accessible-after-configuring-ssl-certificates/5047 "2024-04-19T12:55:21Z")
AWX installation (17.1.0 on RHEL 9) was successful and GUI was accessible with http (port 80). Have obtained Server Certificate and CA certificates from the team and modified the inventory file . Running “ansible-playb… --- ## [Ansible get Powershell return slowly](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-get-powershell-return-slowly/5038)
**Author:** [@Hye](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hye)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2024, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-get-powershell-return-slowly/5038 "2024-04-19T07:12:42Z")
We found ansible running powershell script on windows ,get return slowly or failed. Actually the script already finished ,but Ansible can not get return back. Open SSH version :9.2.0.0 Here is my test time record: St… --- ## [Question about adding remote EE node to AWX k8s cluster](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-adding-remote-ee-node-to-awx-k8s-cluster/4951)
**Author:** [@yoonmin1030](https://forum.ansible.com/u/yoonmin1030)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/question-about-adding-remote-ee-node-to-awx-k8s-cluster/4951 "2024-04-18T14:15:09Z")
The remote EE node from outside of k8s cluster, how to reach the hop node in the k8s cluster with port 443 ? does the loadbalancer in k8s cluster tell ? I have installed bundle to remote EE node, but running health chec… --- ## [No variables when looping over inventory\_hostname](https://forum.ansible.com/t/no-variables-when-looping-over-inventory-hostname/4837)
**Author:** [@ansgu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ansgu)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2024, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/no-variables-when-looping-over-inventory-hostname/4837 "2024-04-18T07:14:36Z")
Hi everyone. I have a playbook/task that loops over inventory\_hostname. My question - are the variables not transferred to playbook when looping over inventory\_hostname? Can I include the host variables in a way that … --- ## [ATTENTION - do NOT upgrade to AWX operator to 2.13.0](https://forum.ansible.com/t/attention-do-not-upgrade-to-awx-operator-to-2-13-0/4363)
**Author:** [@fosterseth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/fosterseth)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/attention-do-not-upgrade-to-awx-operator-to-2-13-0/4363 "2024-04-17T20:57:00Z")
We’ve discovered a bug that would cause you to lose your data. If you already upgraded to 2.13.0 and didn’t make a backup - do NOT stop / restart your postgres 15 container. The database data is living only in that co… --- ## [Testing paths in conditionals without stat](https://forum.ansible.com/t/testing-paths-in-conditionals-without-stat/4980)
**Author:** [@jpmens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/testing-paths-in-conditionals-without-stat/4980 "2024-04-17T16:19:41Z")
I thought I was quite familiar with Ansible conditionals, but I saw @bcoca do something I wasn’t aware of: testing paths without using stat: - hosts: localhost vars: builddir: "b1" tasks: - debug: msg="direc… --- ## [SSH-keys forwarding to Execution Environment for promptless runs with ansible-navigator](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-keys-forwarding-to-execution-environment-for-promptless-runs-with-ansible-navigator/4972)
**Author:** [@Andersson007](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Andersson007)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 17, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-keys-forwarding-to-execution-environment-for-promptless-runs-with-ansible-navigator/4972 "2024-04-17T10:37:03Z")
I assume you have your environment set up, built your custom EE/use one of community EEs. If not, first read the Getting started with EE guide. You also have your SSH keys generated and the public key copied to your tar… --- ## [Extracting parts of a string](https://forum.ansible.com/t/extracting-parts-of-a-string/4941)
**Author:** [@dulhaver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dulhaver)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/extracting-parts-of-a-string/4941 "2024-04-16T21:44:01Z")
this is kind of a follow up quesiton on Unarchive - using wildcards in 'src' option So, I am getting a value like /opt/nexus/install/nexus-3.67.1-01-unix.tar.gz baked into a variable which I can address via nexus\_tar.pa… --- ## [A smart way to determine whether playbooks should only run for localhost?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-smart-way-to-determine-whether-playbooks-should-only-run-for-localhost/4946)
**Author:** [@ShanDesai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ShanDesai)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/a-smart-way-to-determine-whether-playbooks-should-only-run-for-localhost/4946 "2024-04-16T14:00:22Z")
I am working on a set of Ansible Playbooks which need to be a bit more versatile. The playbooks need to execute on localhost where it is not setup as a Controller node. If it is a Controller Node it performs the duties o… --- ## [AWX job terminated unexpectedly](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-terminated-unexpectedly/2256)
**Author:** [@epi82](https://forum.ansible.com/u/epi82)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-terminated-unexpectedly/2256 "2024-04-16T07:05:31Z")
Hello, I’m having an issue with a job template on AWX that terminated unexpectedly after 5 minutes. No errors displayed in Stdout in AWX ui. AKS version: 1.26.3 AWX version: 22.3.0 The issue occurs not so often, mayb… --- ## [AWX Operator won't create in a healthy state using the default request and limits](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-operator-wont-create-in-a-healthy-state-using-the-default-request-and-limits/4964)
**Author:** [@ocsalon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ocsalon)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2024, 2:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-operator-wont-create-in-a-healthy-state-using-the-default-request-and-limits/4964 "2024-04-16T02:01:02Z")
\*\* I have tried to deploy the AWX Operator to GKE to no avail using the Helm chart and following the documentation site instructions. So decided to try a customization (check step 2 of steps to reproduce) after again twe… --- ## [Help with community.zabbix.zabbix\_agent role](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-community-zabbix-zabbix-agent-role/4959)
**Author:** [@souovan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/souovan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-community-zabbix-zabbix-agent-role/4959 "2024-04-15T18:34:51Z")
Hi guys!! I’m trying to use the zabbix\_agent role to install zabbix package on the given version zabbix-agent-6.0.7-1.el7.x86\_64.rpm ANSIBLE VERSION \[van@aap zabbix\]$ ansible --version ansible \[core 2.14.4\] config fi… --- ## [Installation galaxy-ng not working](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installation-galaxy-ng-not-working/4958)
**Author:** [@malins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/malins)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installation-galaxy-ng-not-working/4958 "2024-04-15T18:06:39Z")
Hello, I’m trying to install galaxy-ng following the guide in the documentation (Installation - Galaxy NG). When trying to access the UI, I cannot login. I can see that the following API requests lead to 404 errors. h… --- ## [Community.okd.k8s and kubernetes.core.k8s hang/get stuck indefinitely](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-okd-k8s-and-kubernetes-core-k8s-hang-get-stuck-indefinitely/4821)
**Author:** [@123232455](https://forum.ansible.com/u/123232455)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/community-okd-k8s-and-kubernetes-core-k8s-hang-get-stuck-indefinitely/4821 "2024-04-15T16:39:50Z")
Hi, I’m trying to use ansible to interact with OKD (OpenShift upstream project) cluster. I have ansible installed within a virtual environment (python 3.8.10). Ansible version is: ansible --version ansible \[core 2.13.… --- ## [Extra\_vars to Webhooks in AWX?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/extra-vars-to-webhooks-in-awx/4926)
**Author:** [@jpmens](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/extra-vars-to-webhooks-in-awx/4926 "2024-04-13T06:34:58Z")
When a Webhook POSTed to AWX provides a payload containing extra\_vars and other things, the values are made available in AWX as "{awx,tower}\_webhook\_payload". Is it by design that extra\_vars isn’t merged with other varia… --- ## [Help for rhel\_system\_roles ad\_integration](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-for-rhel-system-roles-ad-integration/4934)
**Author:** [@souovan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/souovan)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-for-rhel-system-roles-ad-integration/4934 "2024-04-12T19:55:45Z")
If someone has already used this role Hybrid Cloud Console and can provide help i apreciate I’m tryng to use it to add a RHEL 7.9 machine to Active Directory domain and it isn’t working. Even the role documentation show… --- ## [Failed Task for Python](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-task-for-python/4868)
**Author:** [@anon99813807](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anon99813807)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failed-task-for-python/4868 "2024-04-12T18:37:02Z")
Working through a Ansible course on Udemy where the instructor or pretty much anyone is helping with Q&A. I am in a section where I am doing more and more with .yml files. First few steps working good. I am running into… --- ## [Embedding metadata in yaml files which ansible ignores](https://forum.ansible.com/t/embedding-metadata-in-yaml-files-which-ansible-ignores/4910)
**Author:** [@gardar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/gardar)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/embedding-metadata-in-yaml-files-which-ansible-ignores/4910 "2024-04-12T14:29:26Z")
Hello Ansible Community, I’m currently working on integrating Ansible with other tools and need to embed metadata directly in YAML files (such as host\_vars and group\_vars) that Ansible processes. The ideal solution woul… --- ## [Add a username in the sshd config file,](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-a-username-in-the-sshd-config-file/4928)
**Author:** [@unwissende](https://forum.ansible.com/u/unwissende)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/add-a-username-in-the-sshd-config-file/4928 "2024-04-12T13:13:59Z")
Hello everyone, i have a question. I’m trying to create a new user for all of my virtual servers. The creating works fine, only issue i have is the sshd config file. In this file we have one Line “AllowedUsers: User1 Us… --- ## [Import\_tasks results in fatal error: "shared connection closed"](https://forum.ansible.com/t/import-tasks-results-in-fatal-error-shared-connection-closed/4922)
**Author:** [@wnelis](https://forum.ansible.com/u/wnelis)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/import-tasks-results-in-fatal-error-shared-connection-closed/4922 "2024-04-12T13:12:24Z")
A group of tasks is used twice in a play, therefore they are placed in a separate file and invoked using ‘import\_tasks’. However, the result is, in all variations I’ve tried: TASK \[linux-common : Include Xymon client co… --- ## [AWX Remote Execution Instance installation](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-remote-execution-instance-installation/4145)
**Author:** [@prateektl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/prateektl)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-remote-execution-instance-installation/4145 "2024-04-12T12:52:20Z")
From AWX UI, i have downloaded the bundle from the Instance section, and inside the server i have executed the necessary command to install it. In UI, the status of the remote instance is diplayed as Instance server1.exa… --- ## [Lineinfile matches one regex but not another](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lineinfile-matches-one-regex-but-not-another/4912)
**Author:** [@jwelliott28](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jwelliott28)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/lineinfile-matches-one-regex-but-not-another/4912 "2024-04-12T12:17:00Z")
Working on creating a playbook to enforce CIS Benchmarks for Apache 2.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. On control 5.1 it suggests adding “Options None” to the element. Config would look like this: \ Option… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6.md?page=78) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/c/help/6.md?page=80)