# New Tower Installation - No Default Credentials Type

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** rhel, vmware, aws\
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453 "2019-05-30T19:18:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Carr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@Tim\_Carr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tim_Carr)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453/1 "2019-05-30T19:18:11Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Lozada\_De\_L](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Lozada_De_L)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453/2 "2019-05-30T19:22:00Z")

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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](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html#add-a-new-credential)

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Carr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e8c25b/32.png) [@Tim\_Carr](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tim_Carr)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453/3 "2019-05-30T20:37:03Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Barun\_kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Barun\_kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Barun_kumar)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-tower-installation-no-default-credentials-type/30453/4 "2019-05-31T04:02:53Z")

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