# issue : skipping: no hosts matched

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-skipping-no-hosts-matched/26318>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-skipping-no-hosts-matched/26318 "2017-12-18T10:42:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![deblick51](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@deblick51](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deblick51)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-skipping-no-hosts-matched/26318/1 "2017-12-18T10:42:08Z")

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Hello,

Trying to launch a playbook via Ansible Tower version 3.2.2 but I’m running into the next issue “skipping: no hosts matched”  
The playbook runs fine on any other Ansible installation but then ofcourse I’m using an inventory file “inventory.ini” and ansible.cfg file as inventory configuration.

My playbook is the next and I’m referring to all hosts . In my test project this is referring to only 1 IP address which is pingable from the Ansible Tower.

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**Author:** ![jmitchel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jmitchel/32/10148_2.png) [@jmitchel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jmitchel)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-skipping-no-hosts-matched/26318/2 "2017-12-19T19:46:44Z")

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I can’t tell any reason why the host would skip based on your explanation, provided you’ve set the inventory that has that host in it as the inventory of the job template.

Might be helpful to refer to the [Tower quickstart guide](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/quickstart/create_job.html) in terms of making sure you have the correct settings on your job template.