started¶

Collection Note

This module is part of the ansible.builtin collection. To install the collection, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.builtin

Added in version 1.9.

Synopsis¶

Used to check if an async task has started, will also work with non async tasks but will issue a warning.
This test checks for the existence of a C(started) key in the input dictionary and that it is V(1) if present

Parameter	Defaults / Choices	Comments
_input dictionary required		registered result from an Ansible task

# test 'status' to know how to respond
{{ (asynctaskpoll is started}}

Key	Data Type	Description	Returned
_value	boolean	Returns V(True) if the task has started, V(False) otherwise.