Need resolution in this : fatal: [ubuntu]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg . . .

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#1

Jawad Khan:
Need resolution in this : fatal: [ubuntu]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “absent and present state can only be used in zone level operations”}

#2

Jawad Khan:
trying to use firewalld module on ansible

#3

Alistair Mackay:
You probably haven’t specified a zone which is required for absent/present.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/posix/firewalld_module.html#parameter-state

#4

Jawad Khan:
Hi Allistair thanks for getting back to me

#5

Jawad Khan:
Please allow me to share playbook

#6

Jawad Khan:
hosts: ubuntu

become: yes

tasks:

- name: add a firewall rule.

  firewalld:

   permanent: yes

   zone: public

   state: absent

   immediate: yes

   rich_rule: rule family="ipv4" source address="0.0.0.0/0" port protocol="tcp" port="1234" accept
#7

Jawad Khan:
state: absent or present

#8

Alistair Mackay:
You;re trying to combine the zone operation with another transaction which is illegal. See the 4th bullet point here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/posix/firewalld_module.html#notes

#9

Jawad Khan:
I just needed to change the state from present to enabled

#10

Jawad Khan:
that’s great

#11

Jawad Khan:
thans Alistair