I am using below playbook to update specific element value in xml file and its throwing error. I have installed python-lxml module as well as ansible version 2.7.8
---
- name: Set element
xml:
path: /home/emsuser/appD_agent_master/machineagent/machine_agent/conf/controller-info.xml
xpath: /controller-info/application-name
value: "Vicom Enterprise blackout Manager"
...
responce:
ERROR! 'xml' is not a valid attribute for a Play
The error appears to have been in '/home/emsuser/playbooks/editMechineAgentConf.yml': line 2, column 4, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
---
- name: Set element
^ here
I am not sure where I am doing mistake. Please help me out . I am new to ansible.
Your code is not a playbook, it's a task file.
In a playbook, you have a tasks: section listing your tasks.
Take a look at the Playbooks intro documentation.
Related
I try to do a simple apt update on a remote system. My playbook looks like this
---
- hosts: all
become: true
tasks:
- name: update
ansible.builtin.apt:
update_cache: yes
When I run it I get the error
ERROR! no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
The error appears to have been in '/opt/LabOS/ansible/test_pb.yml': line 6, column 5, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
tasks:
- name: update
^ here
However if I remove the module path (ansible.builtin.) it runs just fine. According to the documentation both notations should work. What am I missing here?
My ansible-playbook version is 2.7.7
The (optional) full name of the module like ansible.builtin.apt is only available starting from ansible version 2.10.
Since, you are on an older version, it gives an error and you can use only the short name of the module, for example: apt
I have 2 playbooks that need to be run one ofter the other.
the first one preapare env (bring other playbook to localhost for example) and the second
use the preperation files and roles.
---
- name: PREP
import_playbook: prep.yml
- name: after
import_playbook: after.yml
I get a compilation error:
RROR! the role 'from_prep_role' was not found in ....
The error appears to be in '/root/dev/ansible-roles/after.yml': line 13, column 9, but may
be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- { role: from_prep_role}
^ here
How can I solve it?
the first playbook is bringing all the roles that the second use.
thanks
It seems that the "roles" path(s) configuration is missing, at least the path to "from_prep_role" role.
Check your applied "ansible.cfg" file for "roles_path" property, should be something like :
roles_path = ~/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/another/path/to/your/roles:/another/second/path/to/your/other/roles
Please note that having many Ansible config. files might lead to unwanted behaviour (Asnible chooses the 1st found and ignore the rest), for details see https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#the-configuration-file.
I'm getting an error with Ansible, "ERROR! No action detected in task." According to Why does Ansible show "ERROR! no action detected in task" error? , it looks like my error should be that I tried to write a role, and put a playbook in my role/tasks/main.yml. And the solution is to specify only a list of tasks in the tasks/main.yml file. Like this:
---
- name: My first task
my_module:
parameter1: value1
So my file looks like this:
---
- name: using a module
ansible.builtin.command: echo hello there
So I am using a module, just like in the example shown elsewhere on StackOverflow, but still I get the error message. What am I missing?
This is for Ansible 2.9 on RHEL 7.7. Thanks.
You are using ansible v2.9.
The (optional) full <namespace>.<collection>.<module_name> you are using in your task is only valid starting from ansible v2.10.
Use the short name: ansible.builtin.command => command.
You can also switch to the ansible v2.9 version on the documentation on the site to prevent this kind of problem when copy/pasting. See the dropdown on the top left
From the information you provided here it doesn't appear that you're using an actual module, but instead you've placed a task list file in a module search path. Modules are implemented as programming language code that gets bundled and piped over the connection plugin to be executed in order to carry out task work on the managed host in the inventory.
I'm trying to use the Jboss Module in a playbook. As per example:
# Deploy a hello world application
- jboss:
src: /tmp/hello-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war
deployment: hello.war
state: present
However it seems the jboss module is not recognized:
The offending line appears to be:
- jboss:
^ here
I've copied the jboss.py module (from https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/blob/devel/web_infrastructure/jboss.py) in the folder defined by:
library = /home/jboss/ansible/lib
However the error stays the same. Do I need a sort of definition of this module somewhere in order to use it? Thanks
ERROR! 'jboss' is not a valid attribute for a Play
This tells you that you have wrong playbook syntax. Either wrong indentation or wrong sections.
Should be:
- hosts: myhost
tasks:
- jboss:
src: ...
...
I want to use the archive module of ansible but it is unfortunately not working. I have the following version installed: ansible 2.3.0 (devel 2131eaba0c)
my playbook looks like this:
- archive: path="{{path_dir}}" dest="{{dest_dir}}/foo.zip" format=zip
The output looks like this:
"failed": true, "reason": "no action detected in task. This often indicates a misspelled module name, or incorrect module path.
The error appears to have been in '/prj/sndbox1/app/jenkins/jobs/release/workspace/tasks/build_rpclient.yml': line 125, column 3, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
The offending line appears to be:
- archive: path="{{path_dir}}" dest="{{dest_dir}}/foo.zip" format=zip
^ here
We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they start a value. For instance:
with_items:
- {{ foo }}
Should be written as:
with_items:
- "{{ foo }}"
As far as I understood the doc, the extra modules are shipped within ansible, so I assume I don't need to separately install this module.
However, what am I doing wrong? Is there any configuration I need to change in order to tell ansible where to look for the extra modules?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Included the the full log message
Edit 2:
I tried to put the archive.py directly into my working directory --> [library]/archive.py
Now I get the following error:
"failed": true, "msg": "Could not find imported module support code for archive. Looked for either get_exception or pycompat24"
I have the same use case here, I'm using Ansible version 2.2.0.0. Installed via brew on MacOS sierra.
I've managed to solve the issue by adding the following into my local ansible.cfg file.
On defautls section, you must change the library entry:
[defaults]
library = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.2.0.0_2/libexec/lib/python2.7:library
If you have a different setup, check:
pip show ansible
/usr/share/ansible if you are on Linux machine.