awx/tower api help wanted

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Hello Team

team i am trying to launch a template with list of variable_value but task is getting executed only in one target host

sample request

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -s -u admin:admin123 -d '{ "extra_vars": { "domain": "dom-cn-1", "targets": "dev-cn-c1", "targets": "dev-cn-c2", "fwcmd": "fw sam -v -J src 192.168.10.10" }}' -k https://172.16.102.4/api/v2/job_templates/10/launch/

this is working as expected when i run via cli playbook.

##vars file snip

domain: dom-cn-1
targets:

  • dev-cn-c1
  • dev-cn-c2

##playbook file

    - name: "Create output file"
      check_point_mgmt:
        command: run-script
        parameters:
          script-name: "Create output file"
          script: "fw sam -v  -J src  192.168.10.10"
          targets: "{{ targets }}"
        session-data: "{{login_response}}"
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I believe your JSON on the command line is incorrect - I’d bet that your example only runs against the “dev-cn-c2” target, correct?

Try this for the data to pass:

{ “extra_vars”: { “domain”: “dom-cn-1”, “targets”: [ “dev-cn-c1”, “dev-cn-c2” ] , “fwcmd”: “fw sam -v -J src 192.168.10.10” }}

Note that the targets are placed in square brackets to make them a list.

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BTW, I’ve done quite a bit of API work on the command line using curl and this site is quite useful: https://json.parser.online.fr/

I was able to paste in your original code and easily see that “targets” is only going to be evaluated once (to “dev-cn-c2”) by looking at the YAML.

Or if you pasted in your original YAML, you would see the JSON that you could use also showing the “” lists.