need a playbook to change esxi root pass

[Tony Wong]

How do I change the root password on all esxi hosts with a pb?

[Tony Wong]

Need help on this please.

my inventory file

[esx]
esx1

esx2

esx3

--------------------------

playbook

---
- name: change root esxi password
  community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager:
     hostname: '{{ esx_host }}'
     username: root
     password: '{{ esx_root_pass }}'

what else do i need?

[Tony Wong]

this is error I get now

The full traceback is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager_payload_4mdm01xz/ansible_community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager_payload.zip/ansible_collections/community/vmware/plugins/module_utils/vmware.py", line 25, in <module>
    import requests
ImportError: No module named 'requests'
fatal: [esxhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "hostname": "esxhost",
            "local_user_description": null,
            "local_user_name": "root",
            "local_user_password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "port": 443,
            "proxy_host": null,
            "proxy_port": null,
            "state": "present",
            "username": "root",
            "validate_certs": false
        }
    },
    "msg": "Failed to import the required Python library (requests) on esxhost s Python /usr/bin/python3. Please read module documentation and install in the appropriate location. If the required library is installed, but Ansible is using the wrong Python interpreter, please consult the documentation on ansible_python_interpreter"
}

PLAY RECAP ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
esxhost        : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

[Tony Wong]

my playbook

---
- name: "change the root password"
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: "change root pass"
      community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager:
       hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
       local_user_name: "{{ esx_local_root_user }}"
       local_user_password: "{{ esx_local_root_pass }}"
       password: "{{ esxi_root_pass }}"
       username: "{{ esxi_root_user }}"
       validate_certs: "n"
  vars_files:
    - answerfile.yml

[vinoth kumar]

You need to have pip module to run in target hosts. You might have installed pip package on local host . You can simply run this on localhost . It will work . Make exsi hosts on loop

//Vinoth 

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[Tony Wong]

but I have all the pip /pip3 python packages installed already

there isnt anything I can install on a remote esxi host

[Dick Visser]

I think you need to run this against localhost (i.e. the controlnode)
as this is where you have pyvmomi installed.
The ESXi host name should go as the argument in the task itself.

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[Tony Wong]

yes! That did it. Thank you

---
- name: "change the root password"

  hosts: localhost

  tasks:
    - name: "change root pass"
      community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager:

       hostname: "myesxhost"
       username: "root"
       password: "xxxxxx"
       local_user_name: "root"
       local_user_password: "yyyyyy"
       state: present
       validate_certs: no

but when I change it to read from answer file it not working.

any idea?

---
- name: "change the root password"

  hosts: localhost

  tasks:
    - name: "change root pass"
      community.vmware.vmware_local_user_manager:
       hostname: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"

       username: " {{ esxi_root_user }}"
       password: " {{ esxi_root_pass }}"
       local_user_name: "{{ new_esx_local_root_user }}"
       local_user_password: "{{ new_esx_local_root_pass }}"
       state: present
       validate_certs: no

    - name: print results
      debug: msg=" {{ result }}"
  vars_files:
    - answerfile.yml