Thank you for the reply. That gets me to the same workaround I had before though. The problem is that it still shows that the playbook failed overall as the host is shown in red at the end because the unreachable error does not trigger the rescue block, and it still gets shown at the end as the playbook failing overall even though the logic is in there to recover from the errors and be successful. I think that due to the way Ansible handles unreachable errors with blocks, there won't be a way to properly handle it to avoid the playbook showing as failed at the end. While it's not an issue right now for testing and dev stuff, people are going to be concerned if this behavior occurs in production. Unfortunately, all the ignore_unreachable keyword does is prevent the playbook from stopping on the unreachable error.
This is the scrubbed playbook for reference: tasks: - name: Test WinRM connectivity block: - name: Test WinRM connectivity win_ping: ignore_unreachable: true register: ping - name: this forces a recoverable fail assert: that: - not ping['unreachable']|default(False) # depending on connection plugin, you can inspect ping['msg'] for the specific auth errors you can rescue rescue: - name: Change admin account name set_fact: ansible_user: '[new user]' - name: Test WinRM connectivity again win_ping: [image: ansible_unreachable_fail.PNG] On Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 4:26:28 PM UTC-4 bc...@redhat.com wrote: > You can do this now w/o waiting for a new feature. > > - block: > - win_ping: > ignore_unreachable: true > register: ping > > - name: this forces a recoverable fail > assert: > that: > - not ping['unreachable']|default(False) > - # depending on connection plugin, you can inspect ping['msg'] > for the specific auth errors you can rescule > > rescue: > - action: do stuff here > > > > -- > ---------- > Brian Coca > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/2cccb935-07a4-44cb-b18e-8021cea576b2n%40googlegroups.com.
