Run brew restart command using Homebrew module for Ansible

Question

I have been trying to run the command

brew services restart nrpe

with the help of Ansible's homebrew module.

I have gone through the documentation (homebrew ansible doc) but I couldn't find an example which does a similar thing. I have tried the following:

    - homebrew:
        name: nrpe
        state: present
        install_options: services,restart

but it didn't work. Please let me know the correct way to run the command brew services restart nrpe.

P.S. - Installation of nrpe or other services though homebrew is working great.

Edit 1 - Also including the Nagios tag because this might also be faced by the nagios community.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '17 at 19:45

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According to the documentation of the homebrew ansible module, the command :

brew services restart nrpe

seems not implemented. The solution could be to use the command module:

- name: restart the nrpe service
  command: brew services restart nrpe

answered Jun 07 '17 at 19:45

Ortomala Lokni

I tried this but I got this error. `fatal: [192.168.2.91]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "brew services restart nrpe", "failed": true, "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory", "rc": 2}` . I have also tried other modules like `shell`, `script` etc. but none of them seem to work with the `brew` command. – Aryak Sengupta Jun 08 '17 at 05:43
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Add full path to `brew`. – Konstantin Suvorov Jun 08 '17 at 06:21
@KonstantinSuvorov Yes, I had tried with the full path and it worked. – Aryak Sengupta Jun 08 '17 at 06:49

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