Stop displaying stdout when task fails

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I have a task that sends a reboot command to a host, then pings every 10-seconds until a ping has failed. This indicates the hosts has begun the reboot and moves on the a ping every 60-seconds waiting for a ping success indicating the host is back up. It works fine with no issues. The only thing is the fatal output when the ping fails, I would like to stop this from displaying. i have no_logs: true and ignore_errors set already, but can not figure out how to stop the output.

The code snippet:

  • name: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure.
    local_action: raw ping -c 1 -W 1 {{vars[inventory_hostname].IP_Address}}
    register: output
    until: output.stdout.find(“0 received”) != -1
    retries: 12
    delay: 10
    ignore_errors: true

  • name: Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success.
    local_action: shell ping -c 1 {{vars[inventory_hostname].IP_Address}}
    register: result
    until: result.stdout.find(“64 bytes from”) != -1
    retries: 15
    delay: 60
    ignore_errors: true

The tasks output, want to suppress the red:

TASK [base_config_oam : Send Reboot Command] ***************************************************************************************
changed: [vsrx-01]

TASK [base_config_oam : Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure.] ************************************
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (12 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (11 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (10 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (9 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (8 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Pause for Reboot to Begin. Checking Every 10-Seconds for Ping Failure. (7 retries left).
fatal: [vsrx-01 → localhost]: FAILED! => {“censored”: “the output has been hidden due to the fact that ‘no_log: true’ was specified for this result”}

STDOUT:

PING 192.168.1.209 (192.168.1.209) 56(84) bytes of data.

— 192.168.1.209 ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

MSG:

non-zero return code
…ignoring

TASK [base_config_oam : Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success.] *******************************
FAILED - RETRYING: Waiting for Reboot to Complete. Checking Every 60-Seconds for Ping Success. (15 retries left).

2

Why not just use the wait_for_connection[1] module that is designed for this?

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/wait_for_connection_module.html

3

I was reading about custom callbacks and modified the default stdout_callback module to no display the fatal outputs.