How to schedule a task which should be run after every 30 mins

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Hi,

I want to execute specified task in ansible playbook after every 30 mins. Task is not just a command, so “at” module does not work in my case or may be I am not doing it in proper way :

Here is my play book. Playbook below runs correctly for single time. I want to collect the stats after every 30 mins, so how should I do that… Can you guys please suggest solution ?

  • hosts: zmr
    gather_facts: no
    vars:
    date: “{{ lookup(‘pipe’, ‘date +%Y%m%d-%H%M’) }}”
    tasks:
  • name: set the winsize
    shell: stty cols 5000 rows 5000
  • name: Get the debug status
    ignore_errors: yes
    expect:
    command: /opt/wishu/ZMR_Platform/bin/go_zmr_cli
    timeout: 5
    responses:
    (.)Username:(.): “admin”
    (.)Password:(.): “admin”
    (.)ZMR>(.): display debug info PP ip 192.168.30.26 port 8686
    (.):(.): " q"
    timeout: 30
    register: stats
  • local_action: copy content=“{{ stats_.stdout}}” dest=“/home/sam/stats_{{ lookup(‘pipe’, ‘date +%Y%m%d-%H%M’) }}.txt”
    ignore_errors: yes
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How about writing a shell script with ansible-playbook command, and triggering that every 30 minutes using crontab.

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Create a script (e.g. in bash) that does everything you want to do, including run Ansible.

Then create a cron-job which runs that script at the intervals you desire.

Regards, K.