Ansible, validate a custom configuration file

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Hello there
already asked on IRC with no luck.

In Ansible It is possibile to pass a custom filename to validate=‘’ rather than %s? I need to validate a main conf file which is not the templated one.

While this works fine but is not the intended behavior because it validate only {{ icinga2_hosts_dir }}{{ hostvars[item][‘ansible_fqdn’] }}.conf :

  • name: Copy Host Definitions
    template: src=host_def.j2
    dest={{ icinga2_hosts_dir }}{{ hostvars[item][‘ansible_fqdn’] }}.conf
    owner=root
    group=root
    mode=0644
    validate=‘/usr/sbin/icinga2 -C -c %s’
    with_items: groups[“{{ hosts }}”]
    notify:
  • reload icinga2

This is what I want instead but gives me an error:

  • name: Copy Host Definitions
    template: src=host_def.j2
    dest={{ icinga2_hosts_dir }}{{ hostvars[item][‘ansible_fqdn’] }}.conf
    owner=root
    group=root
    mode=0644
    validate=‘/usr/sbin/icinga2 -C -c /etc/icinga2/icinga2.conf’
    with_items: groups[“{{ hosts }}”]
    notify:
  • reload icinga2

Error:

File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1402058068.06-202801895532086/copy”, line 207, in main
(rc,out,err) = module.run_command(validate % src)
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

Thank you.

2

validate is intended to do so on the file you are copying/templating BEFORE
it is put into place. It does not work for 'multi file configs' as the main
file will not be pointing to the tmpfile that you are processing, which
defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

If you want to validate existing configuration, you can just use the shell
module.

3

Thank you!