# Provider in ansible tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/provider-in-ansible-tower/25165>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [August 2, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/provider-in-ansible-tower/25165 "2017-08-02T13:21:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Akku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@Akku](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akku)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/provider-in-ansible-tower/25165/1 "2017-08-02T13:21:22Z")

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ansible --version  
ansible 2.2.1.0  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

I am using Tower to manage network devices, i have added the username and password as inventory variables to pass the credentials to provider.Could someone help how to pass provider in ansible tower other than inventory variable? I tried giving the username and password in the network credentials, But it tower doesn’t accept the value from network credentials.