New Tower Installation - No Default Credentials Type

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Hello - just installed my first Ansible Tower instance (Ansible 2.8.0, Tower 3.4.3) on a fresh install of RHEL 7.6. Everything seems normal - creating users, inventories, hosts, etc. The one problem I’ve run into is when trying to create credentials (“Resources → Credentials”) , the “Credential Type” field is blank; there is no drop-down choice of options here. From what I can tell this is supposed to be populated with all sorts of credential types - AWS, RHEL, VMWare hosts, etc. This is also validated by checking in the “Administration → Credentials Types” area, everything is blank here.

Is this expected behavior - I’m supposed to go create all these credential types? Is there some script / other process to populate default credential types?

Thanks,
Tim

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did you click on the look button? https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html#add-a-new-credential

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Thanks for the reply - rookie mistake on my part. I was expecting a drop-down (or pop-up) box of options, but everything works if I just type in the Credential type - the rest of the inputs for that credential type automatically show up once I do something like manually type in “Network” or something like that.

Thanks!

Tim

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Yes, you need to prepare inventory file that should have all ansible tower console and database user name and password.