[WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping vmware_vm_inventory

[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hello,

I want to set up a dynamic inventory but I have a problem with the plugin. I have followed the ansible documentation : https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/vmware_scenarios/vmware_inventory.html

I followed the tutorial but I get this error message:

 [WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping vmware_vm_inventory

ERROR! No inventory plugins available to generate inventory, make sure you have at least one whitelisted.

Did you encounter this problem? 

Thanks in advance

[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi,

Could you please share your Inventory configuration file? Also, -vvv console log?

Thanks

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Sloane Hertel]

Make sure the community.vmware collection is installed if you're using 2.10 or later. You can use the `--playbook-dir` option with `ansible-inventory` if the collection is playbook-adjacent rather than in a configured path.

[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hello Abhijeet Kasure,

Thanks for your answer !

My inventory configuration file inventory.vmware.yml is :

plugin: vmware_vm_inventory
strict: False
hostname: 10.0.1.1
username: sa.elk...@coppernic.fr
password: Mypassword
validate_certs: False
with_tags: True

And with -vvv :

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py:44: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 2 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Support for it is now deprecated in cryptography, and will be removed in the next release.
  from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
ansible-inventory 2.5.1
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/admincpc/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory
  python version = 2.7.17 (default, Feb 27 2021, 15:10:58) [GCC 7.5.0]
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

 [WARNING]: Failed to load inventory plugin, skipping vmware_vm_inventory

ERROR! No inventory plugins available to generate inventory, make sure you have at least one whitelisted.

Thanks for your help !

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi Sofian,

You are using Ansible 2.5.1 and Python 2.7.17. Both are End-of-life and not supported.

Could you please retry with the latest Ansible and latest Python? Thanks

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hi Abhijeet,

Thank you very much for your help and your speed !

I install the version Ansible 2.12 and there is no error message :) 

But my inventory does not return anything, Do you have an idea ?
Sorry I'm a beginner on Ansible

Thanks for your help :) 

[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Ansible will require Python 3.8 or newer on the controller starting with Ansible 2.12.
Current version: 2.7.17 (default, Feb 27 2021, 15:10:58) [GCC 7.5.0]. This feature will be removed from ansible-
core in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py:44: CryptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 2 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Support for it is now deprecated in cryptography, and will be removed in the next release.
  from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
ansible-inventory [core 2.11.1]

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = [u'/home/admincpc/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/admincpc/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible-inventory

  python version = 2.7.17 (default, Feb 27 2021, 15:10:58) [GCC 7.5.0]

  jinja version = 2.10
  libyaml = True

Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

redirecting (type: inventory) ansible.builtin.vmware_vm_inventory to community.vmware.vmware_vm_inventory
Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.inventory.vmware_vm_inventory declined parsing /home/admincpc/inventory.vmware.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/admincpc/inventory.vmware.yml as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
{
    "_meta": {
        "hostvars": {}
    },
    "all": {
        "children": [
            "ungrouped"
        ]
    }
}

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Hi Sofian,

Please see this error/warning message -

Skipping due to inventory source not existing or not being readable by the current user
ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.inventory.vmware_vm_inventory declined parsing /home/admincpc/inventory.vmware.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method

Check if /home/admincpc/inventory.vmware.yml is accessible and readable by the current user (the user which is running the ansible-inventory command).

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hello Abhijeet Kasurde,

Sorry for the delay, I succeeded in changing the rights.
I now have an inventory with hundreds of lines and info,
is it possible to have a simple inventory sorted by TAG ? ( on my vcenter my machines are tagged by PROD or TEST)
Thank you very much for your help!
Sincerely,
Soufiane

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Yes,

Could you please paste your current inventory configuration file and requirement so that I can give you an example? 

Thanks,

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Thanks,

Abhijeet Kasurde

[Sofian El-Kadouri]

You are so nice, thank you very much !!

My current inventory configuration file is :

strict: False
hostname: 10.0.250.100
username: myemail

password: Mypassword
validate_certs: False
with_tags: True

In my vcenter, I have machines that are tagged with PROD, TEST or OTHER.

I would like to have an inventory that differentiates TEST tags from PROD tags or OTHER tags

for exemple i want this :

PROD:

machine1

machine2

....

TEST: 

machine4

machine9

...

Do you understand my need?
Thank you again, you are at the top!

Regards,

Soufiane

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hello Abhijeet Kasurde,

Sorry I didn't get an answer...
I hope that nothing serious happened to you

Regards,

Soufiane

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Oh sorry, I missed the previous email.

You already have that configuration which enables groups of tags with `with_tags: True`

plugin: community.vmware.vmware_vm_inventory

hostnames:

- 'config.name'

properties:

- 'config.name'

- 'config.guestId'

- 'guest.ipAddress'

- 'summary.runtime.powerState'

with_tags: True

with_nested_properties: True

With this configuration, I get groups like -

{
    "OTHER": {
        "hosts": [
            "c_422e86b3-0e53-7c0d-1b9c-5d653f91ab3d"
        ]
    },
    "PROD": {
        "hosts": [
            "b_422e4de4-1d3c-a793-0693-e1ee79978bd3"
        ]
    },
    "TEST": {
        "hosts": [
            "a_422e78e3-2837-9c59-5471-11992032d1f1"
        ]
    },
    "_meta": {
        "hostvars": {
            "CentOS7_Rest_2_4207e1ea-e0be-f313-0c2a-31979450e76c": {
                "config.guestId": "otherLinux64Guest",
                "config.name": "CentOS7_Rest_2",

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Sorry for the delay,
The problem with your solution is that I have too much information and I would like to have only the machines of a TAG.
I tried this:

But it doesn't work my inventory is empty.

Regards,

Soufiane

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[Abhijeet Kasurde]

Could you please elaborate on " I would like to have only the machines of a TAG." ?

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

My goal would be to have several inventories for example :

inventory_prod.yml with in it the machines that are TAG "PROD"

an inventory_test.yml with the machines that are TAG "TEST"

Because currently in one file there are really all the machines and way too much information that is useless to me.

Thank you very much for your help!

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[Sofian El-Kadouri]

Hi Abhijeet,
Is my request understandable?
If not, sorry, I can explain it again.
Thank you very much
Sincerely