I'm trying to use ansible to configure the environment I have to use. In particular, I need to write a task that reboots the servers, so I wrote this task: but the task fails reaching the time-out even though servers are correctly restarted. I was wondering if it fails because of my ssh configuration. The connection to these servers is

Ansible wait_for rebooting

I’m trying to use ansible to configure the environment I have to use. In particular, I need to write a task that reboots the servers, so I wrote this task:

- name: waiting for server to come back
  local_action: wait_for 
    host={{ ansible_hostname }}
    port=22
    state=started 
    delay=50
    timeout=300
  sudo: false

but the task fails reaching the time-out even though servers are correctly restarted.

I was wondering if it fails because of my ssh configuration. The connection to these servers is done through a Proxy (ProxyCommand in ~/.ssh/config).

FROM VERBOSE OUTPUT

<servername> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: username

<servername> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -vvv -o ControlMaster=False -o Port=22 -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o User=username -o ConnectTimeout=10 -tt hostname

...

fatal: [servername -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 300, "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"connect_timeout": 5, "delay": "10", "exclude_hosts": null, "host": "hostname", "path": null, "port": "22", "search_regex": null, "state": "started", "timeout": "300"}, "module_name": "wait_for"}, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for host:22"}

I don’t know if relevant but in the output:

hostname != servername: hostname = foo, servername = foo.bar.com

I think hostname=ansible_hostname while servername=inventory_hostname

Ansible version: ansible 2.0.1.0

Answer

It was a connectivity problem. To get rid of this problem I’ve increased the ssh timeout.

One simple way to do that it’s creating a ansible.cfg file in the same directory of the ansible script and put inside this content:

[defaults]
timeout = xx

where xx for me was 30.

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