Chapter 13. Troubleshooting the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Operator on OpenShift Container Platform

Procedure

1. Log in to the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
2. In the navigation menu, select Home Events.
3. Select your project from the project list.
4. To view events for a specific resource, navigate to that resource’s page. Many resource pages, such as pods and deployments, have their own Events tab.
5. Select a resource to bring you to the Pod Details page.

Procedure

1. To find the pod name, run:

   oc get pods | grep operator

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2. to view the logs for the pod, run:

   oc logs <operator-pod-name> -f

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   1. Alternatively, to view the logs without first getting the pod name, run:

      oc logs deployments/automation-controller-operator-controller-manager -c automation-controller-manager -f

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Procedure

1. Edit the automation controller CR and set the no_log field to false in the spec.

   apiVersion: automationcontroller.ansible.com/v1beta1
   kind: AutomationController
   metadata:
     name: controller-demo
   spec:
     no_log: false

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   Note

   This might expose sensitive data in the logs. On production clusters, this value must generally be set to true unless you are actively debugging an issue.

2. To increase the Ansible Playbook verbosity from the operator, set the verbosity level using an annotation:

   annotations:
       ansible.sdk.operatorframework.io/verbosity: "4"

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Procedure

1. To view a human-readable summary of a resource, run:

   oc describe -n <namespace> <resource> <resource-name>

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2. To view the complete YAML definition of a resource, use the -o yaml flag:

   oc get -n <namespace> <resource> <resource-name> -o yaml

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   • For example, to get the YAML for the automationcontroller custom resource, run:

     oc get -n aap automationcontroller aap -o yaml

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Procedure

1. To see all available configuration parameters for a top-level CR, run:

   oc explain ansibleautomationplatform.spec

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2. To view specific nested sections, query them directly:

   oc explain automationcontroller.spec.postgres_configuration_secret
   oc explain automationcontroller.spec.route_tls_termination_mechanism

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3. To explore all nested fields at once, use the --recursive flag:

   oc explain automationcontroller.spec --recursive

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Procedure

1. To start the must-gather tool, run:

   oc adm must-gather --image=registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-25/aap-must-gather-rhel8

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2. View the collected data, use the omc tool to query the must-gather tarball as if it were a live cluster.

   omc use <path-to-must-gather>
   omc get pods

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