Hey I am trying to make a dynamic Inventory that scans the network looking for hosts to add, At the moment i am kinda stuck And i don't know what i should do to trouble shoot i used this turtorial mainly to set this up https://www.ansible.com/blog/using-an-inventory-plugin-from-a-collection-in-ansible-tower
I keep getting this error, in ansbile
1.646 INFO Updating inventory 10: PXE clients
1.657 DEBUG Using base command: python /usr/bin/ansible-inventory -i /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project --playbook-dir /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project -vvvvv
1.657 INFO Reading Ansible inventory source: /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project
1.658 INFO Using VIRTUAL_ENV: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible
1.658 INFO Using PATH: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/bin:/var/lib/awx/venv/awx/bin:/usr/pgsql-10/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
1.658 INFO Using PYTHONPATH: /var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python3.6/site-packages:
1.970 ERROR ansible-inventory 2.9.14
1.970 ERROR config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
1.970 ERROR configured module search path = ['/var/lib/awx/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
1.970 ERROR ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
1.970 ERROR executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory
1.970 ERROR python version = 3.6.8 (default, Apr 16 2020, 01:36:27) [GCC 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)]
1.970 ERROR Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
1.970 ERROR setting up inventory plugins
1.970 ERROR host_list declined parsing /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
1.970 ERROR script declined parsing /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
1.970 ERROR toml declined parsing /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
1.970 ERROR [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml with auto
1.970 ERROR plugin: failed to parse /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml: expected str,
1.970 ERROR bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280, in parse_source
1.970 ERROR plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/auto.py", line 58, in parse
1.970 ERROR plugin.parse(inventory, loader, path, cache=cache)
1.970 ERROR File "/var/lib/awx/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/inventory/nmap.py", line 168, in parse
1.970 ERROR raise AnsibleParserError("failed to parse %s: %s " % (to_native(path), to_native(e)))
1.970 ERROR [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml with yaml
1.970 ERROR plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280, in parse_source
1.970 ERROR plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py", line 112, in parse
1.970 ERROR raise AnsibleParserError('Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory')
1.970 ERROR [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml with ini
1.970 ERROR plugin: Invalid host pattern '---' supplied, '---' is normally a sign this is a
1.970 ERROR YAML file.
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 280, in parse_source
1.970 ERROR plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
1.970 ERROR File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py", line 138, in parse
1.970 ERROR raise AnsibleParserError(e)
1.970 ERROR [WARNING]: Unable to parse /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/Nmap.yml as an
1.970 ERROR inventory source
1.970 ERROR setting up inventory plugins
1.970 ERROR host_list declined parsing /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/collections/requirments.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
1.970 ERROR script declined parsing /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/collections/requirments.yml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
1.971 ERROR [WARNING]: Skipping 'collections' as this is not a valid group definition
1.971 ERROR Parsed /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project/collections/requirments.yml inventory source with yaml plugin
1.971 DEBUG Finished loading from source: /tmp/awx_744__2xl1jk8/project
1.971 INFO Processing JSON output...
1.971 DEBUG Loaded group: all
1.971 INFO Loaded 0 groups, 0 hosts
1.980 DEBUG Inventory variables unmodified
I am using this plugin: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/nmap_inventory.html
and my plugin file is small:
---
plugin: community.general.nmap
strict: False
ipv4: True
address: 39.0.0.0/24
There is a space on the top line before --- removing that will get past this error. Keep in mind the nmap inventory plugin requires the nmap cli be installed on the control node. If you are executing this on the default execution environment in tower it will fail. You'll need to add another with a custom image/pod spec that includes the nmap-cli.
