ManageIQ and Ansible: 'evm_owner_email' is undefined.

[flealf]

Hello.
I am using a Self-Service form to create a VM and then execute a playbook in Ansible (AAP 2.5).
Everything works fine, the VM is created without issues, and the job is launched. However, the playbook sends an email, and I am using the variable evm_owner_email, but it says it is undefined.

msg: >
  The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was:
  'evm_owner_email' is undefined. 'evm_owner_email' is undefined

How can I make the playbook recognize this variable?

[Fryguy]

@flealf Is this a custom playbook, or something out of the box? If custom, can you share it? @kbrock Does anything sound familiar here?

[jrafanie]

@flealf vms can be owned by users or groups. Can you see who the owner of the vm is? If it's a user, does the user have an email address? If it's group owned, maybe there is no email specified for the group?

Or maybe it's a timing issue and the vm's ownership isn't set by the time the playbook sends the email. If it's owned by a user now and that user has an email address, it could have been related to a timing issue like this.

[kbrock]

I see that app/models/VmOrTemplate with the OwnershipMixin has this field defined ownership_mixin.rb:10

I'm not sure if we need to expose this virtual attribute in automite miq_ae_service_vm_or_template.rb

@flealf What version of ManageIQ are you running? Are you able to access evm_owner.email or owner.email?

[flealf]

Hello, thanks for your answers.

I solved it by creating a method: General/Methods/trae_email

email = $evm.root['user'].email  
#emial = miq_request.get_option(:owner_email)
$evm.log(:info, "=========================== \ El correo del usuario es: #{email}  ")
list_values = {
  'required'    => true,
  'protected'  => false,
  'read_only'   => true,
  'value'     => email
  }
list_values.each do |key, value|
  $evm.log(:info, "Setting dialog param_owner_mail variable #{key} to #{value}")
  $evm.object[key] = value
end

And I called it in the Service Dialog and I declared it as param_evm_owner_email

Service Dialog

[Fiel Information] 
Label: eMail
Name: param_evm_owner_email
Dynamic: yes

[Options]
Entry Point: General/Methods/trae_email

I think the problem was that I migrated from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation 2.5 and the ''evm_owner.email'' variable was no longer recognized by the playbook.