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12. Launch it!ΒΆ

To launch the playbook, browse to the Job Templates tab and click the launch button on the template.

Jobs - launch button called out

Tower prompts you for the any passwords you configured when setting up the credential. Enter and confirm your secure password(s).

Jobs - enter ssh password to launch job

Tower redirects the browser to the status page for this job from the Jobs link, where you can watch this job as it runs.

Jobs - home showing newly run job

This page automatically refreshes using Tower’s Live Event feature until the job is complete.

Jobs - home showing successful job

To view the standard output for the job once it has finished, click the stdout button.

Job - stdout for newly run job

You can also drill down into individual tasks.

Job - select status events for newly run job

Select the 127.0.0.1 host entry under Events Summary to see the events for that host.

Job - show events for newly run job

To view an event’s details, click on any event in the list:

Job - select actions for newly run job

Click Results.

Job - results for newly run job

Congratulations! Your Tower installation is officially setup and running properly. To learn more about these Tower features or to learn about administration tasks, the Tower API, etc., refer to the following documentation sets: