# Ansible Hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 30, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts/21015 "2016-03-30T03:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/da6949/32.png) [@Anil](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Anil)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts/21015/1 "2016-03-30T03:07:20Z")
When I try playbook I see below error ok: [[resoxapp-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net](http://resoxapp-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net/)] ERROR! the field ‘hosts’ is required but was not set my inventory file [hosts] [resoxapp-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net](http://resoxapp-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net/) [resoxapp-ch2f-02c.email.comcast.net](http://resoxapp-ch2f-02c.email.comcast.net/) [resoxui-ch2f-02c.email.comcast.net](http://resoxui-ch2f-02c.email.comcast.net/) [resoxui-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net](http://resoxui-ch2f-01c.email.comcast.net/) [reshaproxy-ch2f-21c.email.comcast.net](http://reshaproxy-ch2f-21c.email.comcast.net/) Below is the playbook ---
**Author:** ![John\_Buxton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@John\_Buxton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Buxton)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts/21015/2 "2016-03-30T19:59:48Z")
See my answer here: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-devel/hzCOJJT9qyE](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-devel/hzCOJJT9qyE) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Buxton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@John\_Buxton](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Buxton)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-hosts/21015/3 "2016-03-30T20:01:03Z")
I see you’ve posted this the Development Ansible group too. See my answer over there.