# Temporarily disable Ansible from running on a host for 1 hour

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/temporarily-disable-ansible-from-running-on-a-host-for-1-hour/31194>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/temporarily-disable-ansible-from-running-on-a-host-for-1-hour/31194 "2019-09-03T23:56:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nima\_V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Nima\_V](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nima_V)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/temporarily-disable-ansible-from-running-on-a-host-for-1-hour/31194/1 "2019-09-03T23:56:01Z")

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I have Ansible running regularly via Jenkins. There are times where I want to prevent a host from running ansible temporarily. What is the best way to temporarily disable Ansible so that it does not run when Jenkins runs it.

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**Author:** ![Karl\_Auer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Karl\_Auer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Karl_Auer)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/temporarily-disable-ansible-from-running-on-a-host-for-1-hour/31194/2 "2019-09-04T00:09:52Z")

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Put a check at the top of every script for a particular file; if the file is there, stop.