Howdy, I’m tasked with creating an ansible playbook that will generate an inventory our our VCenter. I need to be able to get the stats like available and used CPU, available and used memory, available and used disk as well as a count of active VMs in each of my clusters. I’ve been able to create…

[image] unixcommando: a wall is getting a count of active vms in each cluster, the cluster information module doesn’t seem to provide that. I see that there are a number of vmware_vm_* modules but all of those appear to get in you can register the output of any task including community.vmware…

+1 for the VMWare dynamic inventory plugin!

Hi, Thanks for the response, I create a playbook based on your recommendation: - hosts: localhost gather_facts: false collections: - community.vmare pre_tasks: - include_vars: vars.yml tasks: - name: collect a list of the datacenters community.vmware.vmware_cluster_info:…

Sorry about the formatting, I’m no more familiar with the editor on this forum than I am with Ansible, I copied and pasted what was on the screen and the editor changed it, put dots where hyphens were and changed all the indenting. Regards -Bob

I fixed it for you @unixcommando - you need 3 backticks ``` not 3 dashes --- :slight_smile:

you need to install the vSphere automaiton SDK so that the Ansible VMware modules will work: vSphere Automation SDK for Python - VMware {code} Can you try installing that and re-running?

Cool thanks. I figured it had to be something like that, but it wasn’t obvious if I could edit the post. Cheers -Bob

Unfortunatley I already have the plugin.

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IPvSean (Sean Cavanaugh) September 29, 2023, 5:50pm 5

Hey unixcommando can you try reading this post from @Leo Getting error while running a play from AWX 23.2.0 - #3 by Leo because I am struggling to understand your post with the current formatting

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