community.general.jabber callback – Post task events to a Jabber server

Note

This callback plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 12.6.1).

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
Synopsis
Requirements
Parameters

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.

xmpp (Python library https://github.com/ArchipelProject/xmpppy)

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
password string / required	Password for the user to the Jabber server. Configuration: Environment variable: `JABBER_PASS`
server string / required	Connection info to Jabber server. Configuration: Environment variable: `JABBER_SERV`
to string / required	Chat identifier that receives the message. Configuration: Environment variable: `JABBER_TO`
user string / required	Jabber user to authenticate as. Configuration: Environment variable: `JABBER_USER`

Authors

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Collection links

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2025 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/jabber_callback.html