Access ansible playbook results after run of playbook

Question

I am running an ansible script using ansible-pull on a remote machine(client side) which I can't see .

I want to make sure that :

ansible playbook are executed successfully then should send summary
ansible playbook if not executed successfully should send summary of what failed

Enabling ansible logs store information in some log file but was wondering if I can get the results of below ansible output via some variables predefined in ansible.

PLAY [localhost] ************************************************************** 

GATHERING FACTS *************************************************************** 
ok: [localhost]

TASK: [Install the hello package] ********************************************* 
ok: [localhost] => {"changed": false}

TASK: [Install the cmatrix package] ******************************************* 
ok: [localhost] => {"changed": false}

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 
localhost                  : ok=3    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

If not then I will have to write the custom scripts to parse the logs , save information in some db on machine and send it back to our servers .

udondan udondan · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-19T10:07:31

AFAIK there is no variable where you could just get this data from.

But this screams for a callback plugin. Have a look at the plugin log_plays. It writes its own logfile. You could intercept all the messages, collect them and at the end (define a method def playbook_on_stats(self, stats): in your plugin) do with it whatever you want. There also is the mail plugin which will send emails on failed tasks.

Access ansible playbook results after run of playbook

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