Python script with Json output as inventory

[Idan null]

Hello to everyone :)

I'm quite new to Ansible.

I have used the Python API for ansible to connect to a few servers I have,

I want to get the inventory list for the python script from MySQL server, so as far as I understood the list should be in Json format (this is because each host have different ports)

But when I run the script I get a error that ansible couldn't connect to the server:

This is the error i'm getting:

UP ***********

FAILED *******

DOWN *********

{

  "_meta": {

    "hostvars": {

      "10.24.20.126": {

        "ansible_host": "10.24.20.126" >>> Failed to connect to the host via ssh.

This is the full json I'm sending to the host_list variable in the python script

js = {"group": {"hosts": ["10.24.20.126", "10.24.20.127"], "vars": {"ansible_user": "user", "ansible_port": 22}}, "_meta": {"hostvars": {"10.24.20.126": {"ansible_host": "10.24.20.126", "ansible_user": "user", "ansible_port": "22"}, "10.24.20.127": {"host_specific_var": "foo"}}}}

And this is the error i'm getting:

UP ***********

FAILED *******

DOWN *********

{

  "_meta": {

    "hostvars": {

      "10.24.20.126": {

        "ansible_host": "10.24.20.126" >>> Failed to connect to the host via ssh.

This ansible can connect to this server if i ping it using ansible (ansible -m ping 10.24.20.126)

10.24.20.126 | SUCCESS => {

    "changed": false,

    "ping": "pong"

}

the python script I took from here:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/uptime.py

And I just send into the host_list variable the JSON.

Any thought of why my script doesn't work ?

Thank you evreyone

[Matt Martz]

host_list cannot accept a JSON string. It expects either a CSV string of hosts, the path to an INI formatted file, or a path to a script that can be executed to return the JSON you are trying to pass directly to host_list.

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[Idan null]

So if my python script will run a python script that return JSON will it work ?

I mean if i do something like that:

$ python Ansible.py -i inv.py

And the inv.py will return JSON

Or it have to be 

$ ansible -m ping -i inv.py

All this hassle is because I got different servers with different ports to access to the SSH, there is no way in the host_list in the python script to pass port for each host?

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