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+---
+- hosts: {{ instance_name }}
+  gather_facts: False
+  connection: ssh
+  user: {{ username }}
+  sudo: yes
+  vars:
+      rabbit_user: {{ rabbit_user }}
+      rabbit_password: {{ rabbit_password }}
+      rabbit_host: {{ rabbit_host }}
+      listen_ip_addr: {{ listen_ip_addr }}
+
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: Verify if udpagent ([] is to avoid capturing the shell process) is already running
+    shell: pgrep -f [u]dpagent | wc -l
+    register: udpagent_job_pids_count
+
+  - name: DEBUG
+    debug: var=udpagent_job_pids_count.stdout
+
+  - name: stop /usr/local/share/udp_proxy if already running
+    shell: pkill -f /usr/local/share/udp_proxy/udpagent.py
+    ignore_errors: True
+    when: udpagent_job_pids_count.stdout !=  "0"
+
+  - name: make sure /usr/local/share/udp_proxy exists
+    file: path=/usr/local/share/udp_proxy state=directory owner=root group=root
+
+  - name: Copy udp_proxy component files to destination
+    copy: src=/opt/xos/synchronizers/monitoring/ceilometer/udp_proxy/udpagent.py
+      dest=/usr/local/share/udp_proxy/udpagent.py
+
+  - name: udp_proxy config
+    template: src=/opt/xos/synchronizers/monitoring/templates/udpagent.conf.j2 dest=/usr/local/share/udp_proxy/udpagent.conf mode=0777
+
+  - name: install python-kombu
+    apt: name=python-kombu state=present
+
+  - name: Launch udp_proxy
+    command: python /usr/local/share/udp_proxy/udpagent.py
+    args:
+       chdir: /usr/local/share/udp_proxy/
+    async: 9999999999999999
+    poll: 0