Sorry forgot to mention: I'm on AWS EC2 Red Hat Fedora
Operating System: Amazon Linux 2 Architecture: x86-64 *$ ansible --version* ansible 2.9.25 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = [u'/home/ec2-user/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible executable location = /usr/bin/ansible python version = 2.7.18 (default, Jun 10 2021, 00:11:02) [GCC 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-13)] Thanks, Huda On Friday, February 25, 2022 at 4:15:14 PM UTC-5 Huda wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone please help with the following issue: > when I run any of the* ansible list hosts *commands, it doesn't show the > host that's listed in the file. What am I doing wrong? I'm able to ssh > passwordless to this host. > > > I've the inventory.txt file: > > This is the snippet of */etc/ansible/ansible.cfg * > > [defaults] > > # some basic default values... > > inventory = /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt > > [inventory] > > enable_plugins = aws_ec2 > ============================= > > this is inventory file: */home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt* > > [servers] > > devtest ansible_host=99.9.99.99 ansible_user=ec2-user > ========================== > > and i got this error: > > *$ ansible all --list-hosts* > > [WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt as an > inventory source > > [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available > > [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note > that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' > > hosts (0): > > > ======================================================================= > > *$ ansible-inventory --graph -vvv* > > ansible-inventory 2.9.25 > > config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg > > configured module search path = > [u'/home/ec2-user/.ansible/plugins/modules', > u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] > > ansible python module location = > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible > > executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory > > python version = 2.7.18 (default, Jun 10 2021, 00:11:02) [GCC 7.3.1 > 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-13)] > > Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file > > aws_ec2 declined parsing /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt as it > did not pass its verify_file() method > > *[WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt as > an inventory source* > > *[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available* > > @all: > > |--@ungrouped: > > > ==================================================================== > > *$ ansible -m ping devtest -vvv* > > ansible 2.9.25 > > config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg > > configured module search path = > [u'/home/ec2-user/.ansible/plugins/modules', > u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules'] > > ansible python module location = > /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible > > executable location = /usr/bin/ansible > > python version = 2.7.18 (default, Jun 10 2021, 00:11:02) [GCC 7.3.1 > 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-13)] > > Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file > > aws_ec2 declined parsing /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt as it > did not pass its verify_file() method > > [WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/ec2-user/ansible_work/inventory.txt as an > inventory source > > [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available > > [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note > that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' > > *[WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: devtest* > > Skipping callback 'actionable', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'counter_enabled', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'debug', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'dense', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'dense', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'full_skip', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'json', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'minimal', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'null', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'oneline', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'selective', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'skippy', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'stderr', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'unixy', as we already have a stdout callback. > > Skipping callback 'yaml', as we already have a stdout callback. > > > ================= > > *shouldn't i see the hostname there in the output?* > > *this is the documentation I followed: * > > https://devopscube.com/setup-ansible-aws-dynamic-inventory/ > > and even tried this: > > https://devopsmyway.com/how-to-install-ansible-on-amazon-linuxec2/ > > Will really appreciate your response. thank you! > > -Huda > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. 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