See individual, module-level debug statements

[Julian_Montez]

Hi,

I’m trying to view debug statements within individual modules. For example, ec2_asg.py (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/ec2_asg.py) has debug statements describing when certain actions are performed. However, I’m finding it difficult to view these statements on my local machine.

I’ve tried the following:

• Running the module with an args.json file, using the template described here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/dev_guide/developing_modules_general.html#local-direct-module-testing

• Running the module and playbook with ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH and ANSIBLE_DEBUG set properly.

• This has more output, but nothing related to the actions performed during the module’s execution.- Running the ./hacking/test-module executable from Ansible’s source.

• Inspecting macOS’s /var/log/system.log. There was nothing logged here, though according to the AnsibleModule class, there should be output: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/8cf6f56a0103c51e93de9e26ce1982ce4aeb7ba0/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py#L1845-L1850
  Can anyone point me in the right direction for how we’re supposed to retrieve module debug output? Thanks!

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[sivel]

I believe the problem is that asl as configured on macOS (/etc/asl.conf) ignores all messages with DEBUG or INFO.

See https://stackoverflow.com/q/22004505

[Julian_Montez]

Hm…that explains why it’s not working on macOS. Thanks for that link!

I’ve run the same environment variable exports on an Ubuntu machine as a test. The general debug output is there, but the module debug output isn’t there. I still can’t see the internals of what’s being performed during the module’s execution.

• J