Playbook using vmware_vm_info module fails when run from AWX

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I am encountering a problem with AWX when I try to use the community.vmware.vmware_vm_info module to retrieve the list of VMs from a vCenter.

  • My code
---
- name: Récupérer la liste des VM sur vCenter
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: no
  collections:
    - community.vmware

  vars:
    vcenter_validate_certs: false   
  tasks:
    - name: Gather all registered virtual machines
      vmware_vm_info:
        validate_certs: "{{ vcenter_validate_certs }}"
      delegate_to: localhost
      register: vm_info

    - debug:
        var: vm_info.virtual_machines
  • Result of the execution failure
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: }
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"ansible_facts": {"discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"}, "changed": false, "module_stderr": "Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764691283.1468372-22-151162757697601/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py\", line 107, in <module>\n    _ansiballz_main()\n  File \"/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764691283.1468372-22-151162757697601/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py\", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n    invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n  File \"/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764691283.1468372-22-151162757697601/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py\", line 47, in invoke_module\n    runpy.run_module(mod_name='ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.modules.vmware_vm_info', init_globals=dict(_module_fqn='ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.modules.vmware_vm_info', _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n  Fi…
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The result doesn’t look complete. I don’t see what exactly failed there. Could you give us the full stack trace?

BTW what version of community.vmware are you using?

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PLAY [Récupérer la liste des VM sur vCenter] ***********************************
TASK [Gather all registered virtual machines] **********************************
task path: /runner/project/playbooks/lister_vm2.yml:11
[WARNING]: Collection vmware.vmware does not support Ansible version 2.15.12
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “module_stderr”: "Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764699847.962096-22-64845711897849/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py", line 107, in \n _ansiballz_main()\n File "/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764699847.962096-22-64845711897849/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py", line 99, in _ansiballz_main\n invoke_module(zipped_mod, temp_path, ANSIBALLZ_PARAMS)\n File "/runner/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1764699847.962096-22-64845711897849/AnsiballZ_vmware_vm_info.py", line 47, in invoke_module\n runpy.run_module(mod_name=‘ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.modules.vmware_vm_info’, init_globals=dict(_module_fqn=‘ansible_collections.community.vmware.plugins.modules.vmware_vm_info’, _modlib_path=modlib_path),\n File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/runpy.p…
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
localhost : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0

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The error was: TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out

Is your credential setup correctly and assigned to the job template? Does your AWX runner have access to your vcenter?

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Hi @Aichatou_Iyabo_OKEKO

Welcome to the forum :slightly_smiling_face:

As @mikemorency mentioned, it looks like you might have a connectivity issue between AWX and the vCenter.

If you build your own execution environment, and it has tooling such as telnet or openssh-client you could try using these with the command module in a playbook to check the connectivity. Alternatively, if you have access to the Kubernetes cluster which AWX is deployed on, try deploying a busybox pod and test the connectivity to vCenter that way.

A question I have is are you setting the hostname for the module via the VMWARE_HOST environment variable?