Appendix F. Troubleshooting Ansible by Red Hat

In the event of a deployment failure, there are a couple of options to use to troubleshoot Ansible.

  • Run ansible-playbook with the -vvv option.

This can be helpful in determining connection issues or run-time playbook errors. 

TASK [rhn-subscription : Is the host already registered?] **********************
task path: /opt/ansible/roles/rhn-subscription/tasks/main.yaml:16
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/commands/command.py
<10.19.114.224> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: root
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ansible.cfg set ssh_args: (-C)(-o)(ControlMaster=auto)(-o)(ControlPersist=900s)(-o)(GSSAPIAuthentication=no)(-o)(PreferredAuthentications=publickey)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING/host_key_checking disabled: (-o)(StrictHostKeyChecking=no)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ANSIBLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE/private_key_file/ansible_ssh_private_key_file set: (-o)(IdentityFile="ssh_key/ocp3-installer")
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ansible_password/ansible_ssh_pass not set: (-o)(KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no)(-o)(PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey)(-o)(PasswordAuthentication=no)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ANSIBLE_REMOTE_USER/remote_user/ansible_user/user/-u set: (-o)(User=root)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: ANSIBLE_TIMEOUT/timeout set: (-o)(ConnectTimeout=10)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: PlayContext set ssh_common_args: ()
<10.19.114.224> SSH: PlayContext set ssh_extra_args: ()
<10.19.114.224> SSH: found only ControlPersist; added ControlPath: (-o)(ControlPath=/var/run/%h-%r)
<10.19.114.224> SSH: EXEC ssh -vvv -C -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=900s -o GSSAPIAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=publickey -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o 'IdentityFile="ssh_key/ocp3-installer"' -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=root -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/var/run/%h-%r 10.19.114.224 '/bin/sh -c '"'"'/usr/bin/python && sleep 0'"'"''
  • If there is a failure during the playbook, occasionally the playbooks may be rerun.