How to get and parse the output from target hosts

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Hello,

I would like to write a playbook to install Red Hat Security Advisory on my hosts. The idea is to put the published information about the advisories with their Numbers (e.g. RHSA-2016:1234) in a variable and run the following playbook on all hosts:

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I believe something like:

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  • name: Reboot if packages were updated
    command: reboot NOW
    when: “‘Complete!’ in yumoutput”
    `

would do the trick.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_conditionals.html#applying-when-to-roles-and-includes

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30533372/run-an-ansible-task-only-when-the-hostname-contains-a-string

That is assuming that you don’t have the string ‘Complete!’ turning up anywhere else in the output.

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Hi Alexander,

you put me in the right direction. I’d like to give a short example for my solution:

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