Proxmox inventory no such user error

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My goal is to be able to generate my inventory based on the VMs available on proxmox. I am trying to use an api token. I get no such user error.

I thought it was because I’m using a pam user since the docs show using a pve user but that doesn’t seem to be it.

I find it a bit odd that it says its using /api2/json/nodes. When I open that url on my proxmox server it just shows a list of the nodes. Nothing to do with users but maybe it isn’t trying to get them from there per se. But why wouldn’t it show “/api2/json/access/users” instead since that shows a list of users?

ansible [core 2.18.0]
proxmox 8.2.2
Arch Linux latest

some potentially important facts:

  1. proxmox is behind an nginx reverse proxy
  2. I also have openid registered users on proxmox

command I am running:

ansible-inventory -i config.proxmox.yaml --graph -vvvv

config.proxmox.yaml:

plugin: community.general.proxmox
url: https://proxmox.company.com
user: ansiblepve@pve
token_id: ansiblepve@pve!ansibleworking
token_secret: e2a77674-388d-43f4-83d5-9a724dc73d90
validate_certs: true

output:

ansible-inventory [core 2.18.0]
  config file = /home/username/Documents/src/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/username/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/username/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible-inventory
  python version = 3.12.7 (main, Oct  1 2024, 11:15:50) [GCC 14.2.1 20240910] (/usr/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.4
  libyaml = True
Using /home/username/Documents/src/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
Loading collection community.general from /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general
Loading collection ansible.builtin from
host_list declined parsing /home/username/Documents/src/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /home/username/Documents/src/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
toml declined parsing /home/username/Documents/src/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml as it did not pass its verify_file() method
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/username/Documents/src/company/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml with
ansible_collections.community.general.plugins.inventory.proxmox plugin: 401 Client Error: no such user
('ansiblepve@pve!ansiblepve@pve') for url: https://proxmox.company.com/api2/json/nodes
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 292, in parse_source
    plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
  File "/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py", line 685, in parse
    self._populate()
  File "/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py", line 613, in _populate
    for node in self._get_nodes():
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py", line 341, in _get_nodes
    return self._get_json("%s/api2/json/nodes" % self.proxmox_url)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/inventory/proxmox.py", line 317, in _get_json
    ret.raise_for_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/username/Documents/src/company/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml with yaml plugin: Plugin configuration YAML file,
not YAML inventory
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 292, in parse_source
    plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py", line 113, in parse
    raise AnsibleParserError('Plugin configuration YAML file, not YAML inventory')
[WARNING]:  * Failed to parse /home/username/Documents/src/company/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml with ini plugin: Invalid host pattern 'plugin:'
supplied, ending in ':' is not allowed, this character is reserved to provide a port.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible/inventory/manager.py", line 292, in parse_source
    plugin.parse(self._inventory, self._loader, source, cache=cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py", line 137, in parse
    raise AnsibleParserError(e)
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /home/username/Documents/src/company/ansible_automations/run_server_updates/config.proxmox.yaml as an inventory source
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
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hello, are you sure about the value of token_id ?
In Proxmox, if you go in Data Center => Permissions => Api token, the value of the column ‘token name’ is actually ‘ansiblepve@pve!ansibleworking’ ?
Also, in my plugin file, I specify the port 8006 in the URL.