# error in group vars that I can't solve

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-in-group-vars-that-i-cant-solve/17935>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [April 8, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-in-group-vars-that-i-cant-solve/17935 "2015-04-08T23:16:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Chanaka\_Samarajeewa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@Chanaka\_Samarajeewa](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chanaka_Samarajeewa)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-in-group-vars-that-i-cant-solve/17935/1 "2015-04-08T23:16:39Z")

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Hello,

I’m getting the following error when running my task. For some reason Ansible is complaining about \>= characters, but it is ok with \<= characters in the same file. I tried single quotes and double quotes around the characters but it causes other errors. Files and error message are as follows: Thank you for your help.

ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, /var/lib/awx/projects/\_11813\_\_automated\_aws\_cloud\_watch\_alarms/group\_vars/ec2-alarms Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 14, column 20 metric: NetworkIn comparison: \>= ^

main.yml:

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-in-group-vars-that-i-cant-solve/17935/2 "2015-04-09T14:03:48Z")

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Have you tried quoting it? \> is a reserved Yaml character (signifies  
multiline input) so it requires quoting, \< is not a reserved  
character.

&nbsp;&nbsp;comparison: '\>='

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**Author:** ![Bhotu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@Bhotu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bhotu)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-in-group-vars-that-i-cant-solve/17935/3 "2016-01-28T16:59:45Z")

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Does that “arn:aws:sns:ap-southeast-1:779200210943:chanakaalerts” works ?.. I am getting the unusual error saying

“msg”: “BotoServerError: 400 Bad Request\n\<ErrorResponse xmlns="[http://monitoring.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-08-01/\](http://monitoring.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-08-01/%5C)”\>\n \n

How to create the notification with ec2\_metric\_alarm module ?.. I created with “sns” module. But how can I use it in autoscaling group ?