Scheduling a job template based on host tags

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Hello Everyone,

I have a job template for patching windows servers (named windowsUpdate) against a list of hosts in inventory file. I want to schedule the patching activity using AWX based on tags assigned to hosts.

for eg: Suppose i have a list of server : Server1,Server2,Server3,Server4,Server5,Server6,Server7,Server8,Server9,Server10 .

And I want to patch Server1,Server2,Server3 on every 3rd Wednesday every month and Server4, Server5 on 4th Wednesday every month. Similarly Server6 ,Server7,

Server8, Server9, Server10 on every Tuesday.

So, if i am scheduling the template windowsUpdate it will start patching every host in the inventory file. But Based on the above I want some of them to patch on every 3rd wednesday and so on…

So, Is there any way to segregate hosts such that I can schedule the playbook and it will do the update on required days and just on required hosts.

As of now i don’t see any option to do this in AWX console or don’t know.

Please If anyone have any suggestions .Please help me out on this.

Thanks in advance.

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You can create a job template based on the same playbook with different limits. Then assign it to the schedule

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Adding to below, try segregating your inventory to smart groups, based on days may be . . Which can be mentioned in limit of the Schedule.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_patterns.html

Or you can Use dynamic inventory using add_host module, parametrise the hosts of playbook, pass different Extra_vars values for different Schedules.

Thanks and Regards
Mani Mohan

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Hello Mani,

Thanks for your reply. Okay sure I will check on this method to schedule the job.

Thanks again.

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Hello Wei-Yen,

Thanks for your reply. Surely I will check on it.

But I have one question is assigning a host with some tag and then scheduling based on host tags it is still not possible in AWX?

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You can create an ansible group and put that host in that group