Ansible Nmap

[Mayang Sari]

Hello all

I have network 172.130.23.0/20 with a lot of router

I tried to make inventory file for ansible.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/inventory/nmap.html  

How can I use ansible nmap for scanning my network to make inventory file? 

I google it, I didn't find any

Thank you

Mayang

[Brian Coca]

The nmap inventory plugin does not create a file, it uses nmap every
time to generate the inventory in memory for ansible.

You can however use `ansible-inventory --list --yaml -i test.nmap.yml
> inventory.yml` to generate a static inventory

it works with any plugin type, so you can do the same with a cloud
inventory and others.


contents of test.nmap.yml

plugin: nmap
strict: False
address: 172.130.23..0/20

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Brian Coca

[Mayang Sari]

Hello Brain, 

Sorry for late replay

I tried and got this error

ansible-inventory --list --yaml -i test.nmap.yml >  inventory.yml

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file,

not YAML inventory

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml with constructed plugin: Incorrect plugin name in

file: nmap

[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as an inventory source

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

and when I tried with -vvvv

ansible-inventory --list --yaml -i test.nmap.yml  -vvvv

ansible-inventory 2.9.12

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = ['/home/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible

  executable location = /opt/anaconda3/bin/ansible-inventory

  python version = 3.8.3 (default, Jul  2 2020, 16:21:59) [GCC 7.3.0]

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

setting up inventory plugins

host_list declined parsing /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method

virtualbox declined parsing /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file,

not YAML inventory

  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280, in parse_source

    plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)

  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py", line 112, in parse

    raise AnsibleParserError('Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory')

[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml with constructed plugin: Incorrect plugin name in

file: nmap

  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280, in parse_source

    plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)

  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/constructed.py", line 109, in parse

    self._read_config_data(path)

  File "/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/__init__.py", line 224, in _read_config_data

    raise AnsibleParserError("Incorrect plugin name in file: %s" % config.get('plugin', 'none found'))

[WARNING]: Unable to parse /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as an inventory source

[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available

all:

  children:

    ungrouped: {}

how to fix this?

[Mayang Sari]

I tried edit /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and add ini and auto in  enable_plugins 

[Mayang Sari]

Hello all

Sorry I just curious, is this normal result for plugin nmap?

ansible-inventory --list --yaml -i test.nmap.yml -vvvv

ansible-inventory 2.9.12

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = ['/home/oss/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ansible

  executable location = /opt/anaconda3/bin/ansible-inventory

  python version = 3.8.3 (default, Jul  2 2020, 16:21:59) [GCC 7.3.0]

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

setting up inventory plugins

host_list declined parsing /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method

virtualbox declined parsing /Jaks/test.nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method

Parsed /Jaks/test.nmap.yml inventory source with auto plugin

all:

  children:

    ungrouped: {}