# Unable to create jenkins job using anisble **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 13, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092 "2023-06-13T01:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/1 "2023-06-13T01:02:29Z")
I am trying to create a jenkins job using ansible “community.general.jenkins\_job”, but I am getting below error. Also I used existing job config.xml The full traceback is: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/tmp/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload\_jul5utxw/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload.zip/ansible\_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/jenkins\_job.py”, line 313, in create\_job File “/tmp/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload\_jul5utxw/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload.zip/ansible\_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/jenkins\_job.py”, line 245, in get\_config File “/tmp/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload\_jul5utxw/ansible\_community.general.jenkins\_job\_payload.zip/ansible\_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/jenkins\_job.py”, line 350, in job\_config\_to\_string File “/usr/lib64/python3.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1314, in XML parser.feed(text) File “”, line None xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> { “changed”: false, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “config”: “/home/teamci-deploy-user/gitrepo/jenkins/build.com/config.xml”, “enabled”: null, “name”: “axwarpsynctest”, “password”: null, “state”: “present”, “token”: “VALUE\_SPECIFIED\_IN\_NO\_LOG\_PARAMETER”, “url”: “[https://build.com](https://build.com)”, “user”: “[nchitturi@domain.com](mailto:nchitturi@domain.com)”, “validate\_certs”: true } }, “msg”: “Unable to create job, not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0 for [https://build.com](https://build.com)” } ---
**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/2 "2023-06-13T01:35:33Z")
Seems like the config.xml is not well formatted. ---
**Author:** ![atul\_mohan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@atul\_mohan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/atul_mohan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/3 "2023-06-13T04:20:23Z")
#!/bin/bash check\_xml\_syntax() { file\_path=$1 if xmllint --noout “$file\_path” &\>/dev/null; then echo “XML syntax is valid.” return 0 else echo “Invalid XML syntax: $(xmllint --errors “$file\_path”)” return 1 fi } format\_xml() { file\_path=$1 xmllint --format --output “$file\_path” “$file\_path” &\>/dev/null echo “XML file formatted successfully.” } config\_file\_path=“/home/teamci-deploy-user/gitrepo/jenkins/build.com/config.xml” # Check XML syntax if ! check\_xml\_syntax “$config\_file\_path”; then exit 1 fi format\_xml “$config\_file\_path” ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/4 "2023-06-13T06:02:01Z")
It says that, but I did not touch the configuration.xml, I just used the conf from the existing Jenkins job. ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/5 "2023-06-13T06:02:54Z")
Thankyou will try this ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/6 "2023-06-13T16:53:10Z")
I tried this but getting below error Unknown option --errors Invalid XML syntax: Usage : xmllint [options] XMLfiles … ---
**Author:** ![dnmvisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dnmvisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dnmvisser)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/7 "2023-06-13T17:09:36Z")
Just try plain xmllint, you’re now debugging someone else’s script. xmllint path/to/configuration.xml ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/8 "2023-06-13T19:06:17Z")
thankyou, I tried xmllint \>config.xml\> it did not throw any warning or error, still I am getting same error, also I tried to get basic config.xml and tired.no use ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/9 "2023-06-13T19:26:07Z")
it is showing error at the below point , do I need to use any other version of python? File “/usr/lib64/python3.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1314, in XML parser.feed(text) File “”, line None xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 0 fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> { ---
**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/10 "2023-06-13T19:46:08Z")
Please use the file lookup plugin to read config xml instead of just the filename like - config: “{{ lookup(‘file’, ‘templates/test.xml’) }}” ---
**Author:** ![Narmada\_Karthika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Narmada\_Karthika](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Narmada_Karthika)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-create-jenkins-job-using-anisble/38092/11 "2023-06-13T22:16:12Z")
Thank you Abhijeet, I tried your option, it stopped complaining about config errors second error what I fixed is the user which I am trying to use is not admin on jenkins, after granting access, I am able to configure the job Thanks a lot every one.