# Retrieving a value from NetApp cluster, and assign it to a variable in Playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-a-value-from-netapp-cluster-and-assign-it-to-a-variable-in-playbook/33461>\
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**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-a-value-from-netapp-cluster-and-assign-it-to-a-variable-in-playbook/33461 "2020-07-22T10:42:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieving-a-value-from-netapp-cluster-and-assign-it-to-a-variable-in-playbook/33461/1 "2020-07-22T10:42:48Z")

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New to Ansible, and need your help.

I wanted to use a playbook to retrieve a value about a volume upon the entered volume name. Then I assign the value to a variable in Ansible. Based on the value, conditionally determine what next step is in my playbook.

Can somebody please illustrate how the code should look like? I don’t see a way that Ansible can interactively “talk” to the storage back and forth.