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Dear All,

I see that the ansible program has the option of saving it’s output in a logfile somewhere:
-t TREE, --tree=TREE log output to this directory

But ansible-playbook seems to miss such a feature.

I’d like to be able to have other people in our team review what my playbook session did (And vice-versa). Is there a proper way of doing so? Or should I invest some time in a callback plugin?

Thanks,
Mark

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A callback plugin is the intended way to write a custom logger, yes.

The tree layout wouldn't really make sense for an entire playbook run.

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Good, thats allright then.

Is there documentation anywhere about the callback plugin system?
I mean a bit more then: http://ansible.cc/docs/api.html?highlight=callback#callback-plugins ?

Or even this: http://jpmens.net/2012/09/11/watching-ansible-at-work-callbacks/?

Thank,
Mark

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There are several live examples in addition to the API docs:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/plugins/callbacks

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Agreed but there not commented, and way above my python-skilzzz ( :wink: )

I’m a stinking old Linux admin with Bash skils, so I’ll be creating my callbacks in Bash, but I do not know how the whole thing works.
I mean, what do I do to have the callback run, and what get’s passed to it and it what form, etc??

Any other examples?

Thanks!
Mark

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Comments, well, it's intended that you read the source and see where
the individual names come up if you need more understanding. They are
intentionally rather low level.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/callback_plugins/noop.py

It always runs automatically if in the proper directory. These are
configured either in your config file or you can just drop it in the
systems one.

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Aaah, I missed that part. So these scripts, as long as they are available, get run anyway, no need for a special something in the playbook.

Thanks!
Mark