Ansible Expect Module

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Hi,

I am new to ansible and ambari. I am trying to set up ambari-server using ansible expect module to respond to questions/options. My code snippet of expect module is :

expect:
command: ambari-server setup
responses:
(?i)Customize user account for ambari-server daemon [y/n] (n)?: y
(?i)Enter user account for ambari-server daemon (root): ambari
(?i)Enter choice (1): ‘1’
(?i)Enter advanced database configuration [y/n] (n)?: n
timeout: 30
echo: yes

I keep running into error:

fatal: [hostnamet]: FAILED! => {“changed”: true, “cmd”: “ambari-server setup”, “delta”: “0:00:30.181524”, “end”: “2016-05-23 20:48:29.951770”, “failed”: true, “invocation”: {“module_args”: {“chdir”: null, “command”: “ambari-server setup”, “creates”: null, “echo”: true, “removes”: null, “responses”: {“(?i)Customize user account for ambari-server daemon [y/n] (n)?”: “y”, “(?i)Enter advanced database configuration [y/n] (n)?”: “n”, “(?i)Enter choice (1)”: “1”, “(?i)Enter user account for ambari-server daemon (root)”: “ambari”}, “timeout”: 30}, “module_name”: “expect”}, “rc”: null, “start”: “2016-05-23 20:47:59.770246”, “stdout”: "Using python /usr/bin/python\r\nSetup ambari-server\r\nChecking SELinux…\r\nSELinux status is ‘disabled’\r\nCustomize user account for ambari-server daemon [y/n] (n)? ", “stdout_lines”: [“Using python /usr/bin/python”, “Setup ambari-server”, “Checking SELinux…”, “SELinux status is ‘disabled’”, "Customize user account for ambari-server daemon [y/n] (n)? "]}

It doesn’t seem to be taking my inputs as in the error, not sure.

Can someone please help me here?

Regards,
Veda

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The responses is python regex and ()? has special meaning, so I guess you need to escape them.
The first response would be:
   (?i)Customize user account for ambari-server daemon \[y/n\] \(n\)\?: y

3

Thanks Kai!

It worked and snippet is here:

expect:
command: ambari-server setup
responses:
‘Customize user account for ambari-server daemon [y/n] (n)?’: y
‘Enter user account for ambari-server daemon (root)’: ambari
‘Enter choice (1)’: ‘1’
‘Do you accept the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement [y/n] (y)?’: y

‘Enter advanced database configuration [y/n] (n)?’: n
timeout: 300
echo: yes

Regards,
Veda