Running ansible tasks in background and disown

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Hi all, i am trying to top , sar , iostats in the backgound via ansible on remote hosts and collect stats redirecting outpu to a log file while I run other tasks from my local machine. I have tried - name: collect hypervisor stats hosts: all tasks: - name: execute sar iostat scripts shell: top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt & disown but it stops by itself. I want to kill the tasks after sometime manually. Is there any way

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ansible facts can’t get the information?

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not sure if you would get different results, but maybe try nohup instead of disown. ie.- name: execute sar iostat scripts shell: nohup top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt &

Another option could be to use the “at” module to schedule a task to start immediately. ie…


- name: Schedule a command to execute in 0 minutes as root.
  at:
    command: top -bd $MON_INTERVAL > $GLUSTER_PROFILER_RESULTS/top_proc.$HOSTNAME.txt 
    count: 0
    units: minutes