community.general.hipchat callback – post task events to hipchat

Note

This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

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.hipchat.

Synopsis

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

  • Before 2.4 only environment variables were available for configuring this plugin.

Requirements

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

  • whitelist in configuration.

  • prettytable (python lib)

Parameters

Parameter

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api_version

string

HipChat API version, v1 or v2.

Default: "v1"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_hipchat]
api_version = v1

  • Environment variable: HIPCHAT_API_VERSION

from

string

Name to post as

Default: "ansible"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_hipchat]
from = ansible

  • Environment variable: HIPCHAT_FROM

notify

boolean

Add notify flag to important messages

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_hipchat]
notify = true

  • Environment variable: HIPCHAT_NOTIFY

room

string

HipChat room to post in.

Default: "ansible"

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_hipchat]
room = ansible

  • Environment variable: HIPCHAT_ROOM

token

string / required

HipChat API token for v1 or v2 API.

Configuration:

  • INI entry:

    [callback_hipchat]
token = VALUE

  • Environment variable: HIPCHAT_TOKEN

Authors

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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.