In Ansible Tower, Why is My scan_facts.yml Playbook Failing with an Undefined Variable?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When running the scan_facts.yml playbook provided by Red Hat with Fact Caching on, random hosts will fail with the error:

FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "The conditional check 'ansible_os_family != \"Windows\"' failed. The error was: error while evaluating conditional (ansible_os_family != \"Windows\"): 'ansible_os_family' is undefined

Environment

  • Ansible Tower 3.2.0-3.2.2

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