XMPP

E-mails are slow, unreliable, and often people do not react to them immediately. There are cases where you want to send a real-time message to one of your users. Many organizations rely on XMPP/Jabber for their internal chat system and the great thing is that Ansible is able to directly send messages to XMPP/Jabber users and conference rooms.

Let's tweak the previous example to send uptime information to a user in the file uptime_and_xmpp_user.yaml:

    - hosts: localhost 
      tasks: 
      - name: Read the machine uptime 
        command: 'uptime -p' 
        register: uptime 
      - name: Send the uptime to user 
        jabber: 
          user: [email protected] 
          password: PASSWORD 
          to: [email protected] 
          msg: 'Local system uptime is {{ uptime.stdout }}.' 

Note

If you want to use the Ansible jabber task, you will need to have the library xmpppy installed on the system that will perform the task.

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