Could someone please help on "How to download Ansible Tower execution result to a log file on a particular remote server?".
I couldn't find much results on "How to automatically download the result of execution?".
I understand your question similar to Ansible Tower REST API: Is there any way to get the logs/output of a job?
According the Tower API Reference Guide: Jobs, the following call might work from or on your remote server.
curl --silent -u ${TOWER_USER}:${TOWER_PASSWORD} -JL https://${TOWER_URL}/api/v2/jobs/${JobID}/stdout?format=txt_download -o job_${JobID}.log
resulting into the output of a file called job_${JobID}.log.
You may transfer this in to an Ansible task, ideally by not using the shell module.
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Is there any way to find and re-run an earlier instance of a Power Automate workflow programmatically?
I can do this manually: download the .csv file containing the instances, search in the Trigger output column the one I want, get the id, copy-paste the run URL, and click resubmit.
I tried with Power Automate itself:
The built-in Flow Management connector supports only to find a specific flow by name, and does not even go to the history.
PowerShell:
Installed the PowerApps module, I can list the instances with
Get-FlowRun -FlowName {flow name}
But I don't see the same properties as in the exported .csv file, and there's also no Run-Flow command that would let me run it.
So, I am a little stuck here; could someone please help me out?
We cannot programmatically resubmit the Flow run from the history with PowerShell or by any other api method yet.
But can avoid some manual work by using workflow function in a Flow compose step, we can automate the composition of Flow history run url. Read more
https://xxx.flow.microsoft.com/manage/environments/07aa1562-fea6-4583-8d76-9a8e67cbf298/flows/141e89fb-af2d-47ac-be25-f9176e64e9a0/runs/08586722084717816659969428791CU12?backUrl=%2Fflows%2F141e89fb-af2d-47ac-be25-f9176e64e9a0%2Fdetails&runStatus=Failed
There are 3 guids that I need to find aso that I can build up the flow history url.
The first guid is my environmentName (07aa1562-fea6-4583-8d76-9a8e67cbf298), then I’ve got the flow name ( 141e89fb-af2d-47ac-be25-f9176e64e9a0) and finally the run (08586722084717816659969428791CU12).
There is a cmdlet from Microsoft 365 CLI to resubmit a flow run
m365 flow run resubmit --environment flowEnvironmentID --flow flowGUID --name flowRunID –confirm
You can also resubmit a flow run using Power Automate REST API
https://api.flow.microsoft.com/providers/Microsoft.ProcessSimple/environments/{FlowEnvironment}/flows/{FlowGUID}/triggers/manual/histories/{FlowRunID}/resubmit?api-version=2016-11-01
For the Power Automate REST API, you will have to pass an authorization token.
For more information, go through the following post
https://ashiqf.com/2021/05/09/resubmit-your-failed-power-automate-flow-runs-automatically-using-m365-cli-and-rest-api/
We are using uDeploy for the deployment process. At one of the shell step, we have a json file is receiving as input, we want to read the json file and process the output. I couldnt find any options withing the document. Could someone help to find the option?
If your uDeploy Agent machine is linux, you can try jq
I'm reading through the CodeDeploy reference docs here; and can't find the equivalent of aws deploy push command to send up a new version of my application to s3 to be ready for deployment.
Do I need to just zip these files myself and send them to s3 with the other PowerShell tools instead?
Since push is not a single API call, but rather a multistep operation, the simplest way to automate it in a powershell script is to literally put the command in the script
aws deploy push
You may need to make sure the aws executable is on your path.
I have powershell script which is present on chef server to run on remote windows server, how can i run this powershell script from chef server on remote windows server.
Chef doesn't do anything like this. First, Chef Server can never remotely access servers directly, all it does is stores data. Second, Chef doesn't really do "run a thing in a place right now". We offer workstation tools like knife ssh and knife winrm as simplistic wrappers but they aren't made for anything complex. The Chef-y way to do this would be to make a recipe and run your script using the the powershell_script resource.
Does it mean chef is also running on Windows server ?
If yes, why not to use psexec from Windows Ps tools ?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec
Here is my understanding of what you are trying to achieve. If I'm wrong then please correct me in a comment and I will update my answer.
You have a powershell script that you need to run on a specific server or set of servers.
It would be convenient to have a central management solution for running this script instead of logging into each server and running it manually.
Ergo you either need to run this script in many places when a condition isn't filled, such as a file is missing, or you need to run this script often, or you need this script to be run with a certain timing in regards to other processes you have going on.
Without knowing precisely what you're trying to achieve with your script the best solution I know of is to write a cookbook and do one of the following
If your script is complex place it in your cookbook/files folder (assuming the script will be identical on all computers it runs on) or in your cookbook/templates folder (if you will need to inject information into it at write time). You can then write the .ps file to the local computer during a Chef converge with the following code snippet. After you write it to disk you will also have to call it with one of the commands in the next bullet.
Monomorphic file:
cookbook_file '<destination>' do
source '<filename.ps>'
<other options>
end
Options can be found at https://docs.chef.io/resource_cookbook_file.html
Polymorphic file:
template '<destination>' do
source '<template.ps.erb>'
variables {<hash of variables and values>}
<other options>
end
Options can be found at https://docs.chef.io/resource_template.html
If your script is a simple one-liner you can instead use powershell_script, powershell_out! or execute. powershell_out! has all the same options and features as the shell_out! command and the added advantage that your converge will pause until it receives an exit status for the command, if that is desirable. The documentation on using it is a bit more spotty though so spend time experimenting with it and googling.
https://docs.chef.io/resource_powershell_script.html
https://docs.chef.io/resource_execute.html
Which ever option you end up going with you will probably want to guard your resource with conditions on when it should not run, such as when a file already exists, a registry key is set or what ever else your script changes that you can use. If you truly want the script to execute every single converge then you can skip this step, but that is a code smell and I urge you to reconsider your plans.
https://docs.chef.io/resource_common.html#guards
It's important to note that this is not an exhaustive list of how to run a powershell script on your nodes, just a collection of common patterns I've seen.
Hope this helped.
We use an ETL process to pull data from Google Cloud Storage, but annoyingly it hangs everytime Google releases udpates to GSUtil, because it sits at a prompt asking if you want to update the library. Fine if you are doing this manually, but not cool when it's being run in an automated SSIS package, as jobs don't finish for days and you keep wasting time with the same stupid cause.
I thought I was going to be cleaver, and add "python gsutil update -n" to the top of the bash script I'm automating the building/execution of in my SSIS Package in the hope to curb this problem, but when I run this command from the prompt in either Windows Server 2008r2 or Windows 7 I get the following:
C:\gsutil>python gsutil update -f -n
Copying gs://pub/gsutil.tar.gz...
OSError: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
Any help?
P.S. - Also, Google engineers... can you PLEASE remove these prompts? for all of us using these tools in automated processes? I have other things to work on, instead of constantly going back to things like this every few days/weeks.
What version of gsutil are you running?
Also, to be clear: Are you talking about the fact that gsutil checks for available software updates periodically, and if it finds them it then prompts you whether you want to update? Or are you talking about the fact that the gsutil update command asks if you want to perform the update?
If the former, gsutil shouldn't be performing this check/prompting if you are running gsutil from a script not connected to at TTY. If that's not working correctly we'd like to know.
And also, if that's the problem you're having, you can completely disable automated software update checks by setting software_update_check_period=0 in the [GSUtil] section of your .boto config file.