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Using Ansible Modules to Manage Scheduled Tasks in Your Environment

Cron jobs are tools that help system administrators automate tasks. The downside is that configuring them across hundreds of systems is a daunting task. Ansible has a module to help here as well. This hands-on lab will help you understand how that module is configured. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 15m
Published
Clock icon Oct 18, 2019

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Write a Playbook to Create a Weekly YUM Update Job in Cron

    Your playbook entry for this job should look similar to this:

      - cron:
         name: "Weekly YUM Update"
         special_time: weekly
         job: "/usr/bin/yum update -y"
    
  2. Challenge

    Write a Playbook to Execute /usr/bin/status on Reboot

    This section of your playbook should look like this:

      - cron:
         name: "Reboot Status"
         special_time: reboot
         job: "/usr/bin/status"
    
  3. Challenge

    Write a Playbook to Execute /usr/bin/faillock_report at the Required Time

    This section of the playbook should look like this:

      - cron:
         name: "Faillock Report"
         job: /usr/bin/faillock_report
         weekday: "1,3,5"
         minute: "30"
         hour: "7"
    

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