community.general.jabber callback – post task events to a jabber server

Note

This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this callback plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.jabber.

Callback plugin

This plugin is a notification callback. It sends information for a playbook run to other applications, services, or systems. See Callback plugins for more information on callback plugins.

Synopsis

  • The chatty part of ChatOps with a Hipchat server as a target.

  • This callback plugin sends status updates to a HipChat channel during playbook execution.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

password

string / required

Password for the user to the jabber server

Configuration:

server

string / required

connection info to jabber server

Configuration:

to

string / required

chat identifier that will receive the message

Configuration:

user

string / required

Jabber user to authenticate as

Configuration:

Authors

  • Unknown

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.