Activities

• Connect to Ansible
• Disconnect from Ansible
  
• Check Host
• Inventory Create
• Inventory Delete
• Inventory Create
• Inventory Update
• Script Execution

Connect to Ansible

This activity connects to Ansible.The Output of this activity should be used as input for all Connection parameters used for activities placed under Ansible category.

Activity Parameters

The Connect to Ansible activity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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Parameters:

• Host name / IP Address (text box editor type) (type: string): the DNS name or IP Address of the SSH host.
• Password (password editor type) (type: string): the password for the provided username.
• Password Binding (text box editor type) (type: string): bind to a variable containing the encrypted password for the SSH host. (This parameter is used only when the user wants to send an encrypted password from outside the workflow, for example Flowster Portal).
• SSH Port (text box editor type) (type: Int32): default value for the SSH port is 22.
• SSH Timeout (text box editor type) (type: Int32): default value for the SSH timeout is 60 seconds to establish a SSH connection to the specified host. 
• Username (text box editor type) (type: string): the username to connect to the SSH Ansible host.E.g. 'root'

The Read Only Output variable are the possible output values that the activity will provide:

• Connection (type: object): outputs an Ansible Connection. This parameter should be used as input for all Connection parameters used for activities placed under Ansible category.

Disconnect from Ansible

This activity disconnects from Ansible.

Activity Parameters

The Disconnect from Ansibleactivity parameters can be provided by manual inserted values or via IN arguments or variables:

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Parameters:

• Connection (text box editor type) (type: object): the Ansible Connection object. The output parameter from Connect To Ansible activity should be used as Input here.