# Ansible AWX Status is Disabled

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442 "2022-12-08T13:45:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Elie\_Kharrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@Elie\_Kharrat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Elie_Kharrat)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442/1 "2022-12-08T13:45:35Z")

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Hello

i installed ansible awx with docker containers, whenever i create an inventory its status is showing disabled as shown in the attached screenshot , your assistance is appreciated

 ![disabled_inv.PNG](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/8/867484693a15483afc7ef3432ff4d4f76b1faba8.png)

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442/2 "2022-12-09T18:19:22Z")

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Hello,

We saw that kurokobo replied to your issue request around this in the awx repo ([https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/13312](https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/13312))

Per your follow up question:  
My aim is to link AWX inventory to /etc/ansible/hosts file , or create a manual inventory locally on the server and just run playbooks and manage them through AWX . can you please advise how to do it ?

We recommend that you use the inventory function of AWX. An inventory can have a dynamic source such as coming from a file in a source control system that a project is connected to. So you could put your /etc/ansible/hosts file into source control and then have AWX create an inventory from that file for you dynamically. For more information see our inventory documentation at [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html)

-The AWX Team

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**Author:** ![Elie\_Kharrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@Elie\_Kharrat](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Elie_Kharrat)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442/3 "2022-12-12T10:58:12Z")

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Thank you for your assistance 🙂

i created an Inventory called it “My First inventory”  
added a source Project named it “MySource”  
concerning “Mysource” project, i am not sure if the config is correct because i didn’t find a significant Source control credential type, i chose “Subervision” with source control URL “svn+ssh://192.168.29.53/etc/ansible/hosts” where 192.168.29.53 is the IP address where AWX Docker project is installed and where i defined the host file in /etc/ansible/hosts

Please advise if it is correct, because when i am running my playbook it remains pending, i want to check first if inventory config is correct .

Best Regards  
Elie

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-status-is-disabled/37442/4 "2022-12-14T19:53:14Z")

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Hello,  
Thank you for providing this information. It sounds like there may be a missing step here. Please refer back to the documentation we sent over and follow the steps for setting source control in a project. We have included links to the pertinent documentation for easy reference.

Projects: [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/projects.html](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/projects.html)  
Inventories: [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html)  
Credentials: [https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html](https://docs.ansible.com/automation-controller/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html)

- AWX Team