exception dynamic inventory when subfolders

[Anasme]

Hello,

I'm trying ansible-cmdb and it seem very nice, thank you. Unfortunately I encounter an error when reading my inventory:

[root@server:~]# ansible-cmdb -i /etc/ansible/inventories/prod out/ > overview.html Exception while executing dynamic inventory script '/etc/ansible/inventories/prod/hosts': [Errno 8] Exec format error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/../lib/ansiblecmdb/ansible-cmdb.py", line 205, in limit=options.limit, debug=options.debug) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansiblecmdb/ansible.py", line 61, in init self._parse_hostvar_dir(inventory_path) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansiblecmdb/ansible.py", line 188, in _parse_hostvar_dir self._parse_hostvar_file(hostname, p) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansiblecmdb/ansible.py", line 196, in _parse_hostvar_file first_line = open(path, 'r').readline() IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/etc/ansible/inventories/prod/host_vars/FQDN/vault'

my inventories tree look like this (exemple of course): in host_vars I have some server with 2 subfolders like ./server/vars ./server/vault

. ├── group_vars │   ├── all │   │   └── 000_cross_env_vars -> ../../../000_cross_env_vars │   ├── prod_censored_ab │   │   ├── dns.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_am_expert │   │   ├── parameters.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_am_pro │   │   ├── dns.yml │   │   ├── document.yml │   │   ├── nginx_vhosts.yml │   │   ├── parameters.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_xyxyx │   │   └── document.yml │   ├── prod_censored_xyxyxy │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_xyxy │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_xyx │   │   ├── document.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_yy │   │   ├── document.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_x │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_censored_xy │   │   ├── dns.yml │   │   └── censored.yml │   ├── prod_soft_gitlab │   │   └── dns.yml │   └── prod_soft_vc │   ├── dns.yml │   └── nginx.yml ├── hosts └── host_vars ├── server1 │   ├── vars │   └── vault ├── server2 │   ├── censored.yml │   └── vault ├── server3 │   ├── dns.yml │   ├── document.yml │   ├── nginx.yml │   ├── censored.yml │   └── vault ├── server4 │   ├── vars │   └── vault ├── server5 │   ├── vars │   └── vault ├── server6 │   ├── vars │   └── vault ├── server7 │   ├── vars │   └── vault ├── server8 │   ├── vars │   └── vault

I want to create a cmdb with your tools to retrieve the basic information that you propose, add all the variables by groups/hosts and some additional facts that I could automate (apache version, tomcat etc.)

Thank a lot for your future help

[fboender]

Hi Anasme!

I'm not sure, but it looks like you're specifying a path to a directory for the -i param, instead of pointing it to the hosts file. If you point -i to the hosts file as shown in your directory listing, it will automatically pick up the group_vars and host_vars dirs in that same dir.

Can you try something like?:

ansible-cmdb -i /etc/ansible/inventories/prod/hosts out/ > overview.html

If that still gives errors, let me know, and I can look into it.

[fboender]

Confirmed that this is a bug in ansible-cmdb.

[fboender]

For now I've "fixed" this by skipping directories in host_vars. Not really a fix, but I'm reworking the parsing of host/group vars and don't want to invest time in properly parsing the myriad of exceptions and hidden features in Ansible inventories in the old code.

[Anasme]

For now I've "fixed" this by skipping directories in host_vars. Not really a fix, but I'm reworking the parsing of host/group vars and don't want to invest time in properly parsing the myriad of exceptions and hidden features in Ansible inventories in the old code.

Hey ! Thank for your reply. Nice to hear you are reworking this part :), I will wait for it, I'm on another project atm. I stay tunned !

[Anasme]

hey @fboender , how are you? what's new on the redesign of your ansible-cmdb?