in a different system. Frequent examples include LDAP, <aclass="reference external"href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a>,
or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software. Ansible easily supports all
of these options via an external inventory system.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn’t already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree – but it’s pretty simple, as we’ll explain below – that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it’s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn’t already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a <aclass="reference external"href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree – but it’s pretty simple, as we’ll explain below – that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it’s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as ‘external nodes’, with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.</p>
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<h3>Script Conventions<aclass="headerlink"href="#script-conventions"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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layer that allows it to represent data for multiple configuration management systems (even at the same time), and has
been referred to as a ‘lightweight CMDB’ by some admins. This particular script will communicate with Cobbler
using Cobbler’s XMLRPC API.</p>
<p>To tie Ansible’s inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy <cite>this script <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py></cite> to /etc/ansible/hosts and <cite>chmod +x</cite> the file. cobblerd will now need
<p>To tie Ansible’s inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy <cite>this script <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py></cite> to /etc/ansible/hosts and <cite>chmod +x</cite> the file. cobblerd will now need
to be running when you are using Ansible.</p>
<p>Test the file by running <cite>./etc/ansible/hosts</cite> directly. You should see some JSON data output, but it may not have
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or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software. Ansible easily supports all
of these options via an external inventory system.
If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn't already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a `Cobbler example <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py>`_ in the main source tree -- but it's pretty simple, as we'll explain below -- that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it's possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.
If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn't already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a `Cobbler example <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py>`_ in the main source tree -- but it's pretty simple, as we'll explain below -- that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it's possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.
If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as 'external nodes', with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.
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been referred to as a 'lightweight CMDB' by some admins. This particular script will communicate with Cobbler
using Cobbler's XMLRPC API.
To tie Ansible's inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy `this script <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py>` to /etc/ansible/hosts and `chmod +x` the file. cobblerd will now need
To tie Ansible's inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy `this script <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py>` to /etc/ansible/hosts and `chmod +x` the file. cobblerd will now need
to be running when you are using Ansible.
Test the file by running `./etc/ansible/hosts` directly. You should see some JSON data output, but it may not have
