Calling a secondary inventory file

[Rick Fee]

I looking to see if it is possible to call a inventory file that is built during the playbook?   The role Set mailbox server to inventory file builds a new inventory file and I want to use that in Mailbox Statistics Collection role.   It works and creates the inventory file but does not seem to work, which I have tried both:

 ansible-playbook Mailbox_Count.yml -e site_vars="Creds" --ask-vault-password -v

ansible-playbook -i /etc/ansible/playbooks//sites/Mailbox_Count_Dynamic Mailbox_Count.yml -e site_vars="Creds" --ask-vault-password -v

is this even possible?   Or do I need a first playbook to create the inventory file and the follow-up to grab the mailbox count, so breaking up the below into 2.

- name: Get messaging enviroment

  hosts: localhost

  run_once: true

  roles:

    - Get_Messaging_Environment

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/vars/{{ site_vars }}.yml

  vars:

    ansible_become_user: root

  gather_facts: false

- name: Get the current mailbox server for the environment

  hosts: XU_Server

  become: yes

  become_method: runas

  roles:

    - Get_Mailbox_Servers

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/vars/{{ site_vars }}.yml

  vars:

    ansible_become_user: "{{ Admin_Acct }}"

    ansible_become_pass: "{{ Admin_Pass }}"

  gather_facts: false  

- name: Set mailbox server to inventory file

  hosts: localhost

  run_once: true

  roles:

    - Set_Mailbox_Servers_To_Inventory

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/vars/{{ site_vars }}.yml

  vars:

    ansible_become_user: root

  gather_facts: false

- name: Mailbox Statistics Collection

  hosts: MailboxServers

  become: yes

  become_method: runas

  roles:

    - MailboxServer_Count

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/vars/{{ site_vars }}.yml

    - /etc/ansible/playbooks/Messaging/Exchange_2013/sites/Mailbox_Count_Dynamic

  vars:

    ansible_become_user: "{{ Admin_Acct }}"

    ansible_become_pass: "{{ Admin_Pass }}"

  gather_facts: false

[Brian Coca]

See `meta: refresh_inventory`https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/meta_module.html#parameter-free_form



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