# inventory file for playbooks with only uri calls

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**Created:** [August 27, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/inventory-file-for-playbooks-with-only-uri-calls/31137 "2019-08-27T13:23:12Z")\
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I am working on a set of playbooks for a hitachi storage automation. They utilize a cmrest server, that manages the connection to each storage array. So all of the tasks are ran on the localhost to the same url base, but there is a var in the path that indicates what storage array to run against.

I was looking at the inventory file as an option to set the vars for each storage array. Each storage array would be a group, but since they all have localhost, the var overwrites because it belongs to multiple groups.

Does anyone have an idea of how i can achieve this or something similar to this?

Here is an example of the inventory file i started with:

`  
[amsterdam]  
localhost

[amsterdam:vars]  
ui=886000428027  
hostss=esx001,esx002,esx003

[singapore]  
localhost

[singapore:vars]  
ui=44444

[all:vars]  
baseurl=“[https://10.123.123.123:23351/ConfigurationManager/v1/](https://10.123.123.123:23351/ConfigurationManager/v1/)”  
`