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ansible vmware dynamic inventory troubleshooting
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| ❯ cat ansible.cfg | |
| [inventory] | |
| enable_plugins = vmware_vm_inventory | |
| ❯ cat inventory.vmware.yaml | |
| $ANSIBLE_VAULT;1.1;AES256 | |
| 61316164336134653239363839303162666261643730376233623333376235656533323435623162 | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| ❯ ansible-inventory -i inventory.vmware.yaml --graph --vault-password-file=~/.vault_pass | |
| @all: | |
| |--@fedora64Guest: | |
| | |--dhcp_4217fa4f-172a-7082-70e5-94a7097f3d43 | |
| ..... | |
| ❯ cat clusterinfo.yaml | |
| --- | |
| - name: cluster info | |
| hosts: localhost | |
| debugger: on_failed | |
| connection: local | |
| gather_facts: no | |
| tasks: | |
| - name: Gather cluster info from a given datacenter | |
| vmware_cluster_info: | |
| hostname: '{{ hostname }}' | |
| username: '{{ username }}' | |
| password: '{{ password }}' | |
| validate_certs: False | |
| datacenter: Datacenter01 | |
| ❯ ansible-playbook -i inventory.vmware.yaml --vault-password-file=~/.vault_pass clusterinfo.yaml | |
| PLAY [cluster info] ********************************************************************** | |
| TASK [Gather cluster info from a given datacenter] *************************************** | |
| fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'hostname' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in '/Users/ceto/Documents/creentech-zabbix/clusterinfo.yaml': line 8, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name: Gather cluster info from a given datacenter\n ^ here\n"} | |
| [localhost] TASK: Gather cluster info from a given datacenter (debug)> p task.args | |
| {'datacenter': 'Datacenter01', | |
| 'hostname': '{{ hostname }}', | |
| 'password': '{{ password }}', | |
| 'username': '{{ username }}', | |
| 'validate_certs': False} | |
| [localhost] TASK: Gather cluster info from a given datacenter (debug)> | |
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unencrypted inventory.vmware.yaml file:
plugin: vmware_vm_inventory
strict: False
hostname: x.x.x.x
username: [email protected]
password: xxxxxxx
validate_certs: False
with_tags: True