# netbox inventory fails with message: object has no attribute '\_vars'

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/netbox-inventory-fails-with-message-object-has-no-attribute-vars/37315>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [November 7, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/netbox-inventory-fails-with-message-object-has-no-attribute-vars/37315 "2022-11-07T16:47:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heinz\_Meier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Heinz\_Meier](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Heinz_Meier)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/netbox-inventory-fails-with-message-object-has-no-attribute-vars/37315/1 "2022-11-07T16:47:32Z")

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Hi.,

I have a new setup of netbox on ubuntu.

- netbox install according to setup
- apt install ansible pynetbox

ansible.cfg:  
[inventory]  
enable\_plugins = host\_list, auto, yaml, netbox.netbox.nb\_inventory

netbox\_inventory.yaml:  
plugin: netbox.netbox.nb\_inventory  
api\_endpoint: [https://localhost](https://localhost)  
token: 12345

ansible-inventory -vvv -llist -i netbox\_inventory.yaml  
fails with the error message:  
[WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /root/netbox\_inventory.yaml with ansible\_collections.netbox.netbox.plugins.inventory.nb\_inventory plugin: ‘InventoryModule’ object has  
no attribute ‘\_vars’  
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py”, line 289, in parse\_source  
plugin.parse(self.\_inventory, self.\_loader, source, cache=cache)  
File “/root/.ansible/collections/ansible\_collections/netbox/netbox/plugins/inventory/nb\_inventory.py”, line 1953, in parse  
self.templar.available\_variables = self.\_vars  
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /root/netbox\_inventory.yaml as an inventory source

Any ideas?

Michael