spacewalk.py issues and questions

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I am trying to get a good inventory from both a spacewalk and an older satellite server. I was able to share the spacewalk.py script with those server and produce an output, which is all one 1 line, and looks something like this: {“CentOS6_Servers”: [“server1”, “server2”, “server3”, “server4”, “server5”, … etc for 600+ servers and many many groops. When I try this:

ansible CentOS6_Servers -a “hostname” -i /etc/ansible/inventory/spacewalk_list_07-11-2014.txt

I get this → ERROR: Invalid ini entry: [ncias-p584.nci.nih.gov, - need more than 1 value to unpack

Is this due to the file being all one line? Is this improper YAML syntax, maybe? Sorry, I am a new to YAML Syntax, and Ansible.

Am I using spacewalk.py incorrectly?

Thanks for assistance you can give me.

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David Jacobs <psychodj@gmail.com> napisał:

I am trying to get a good inventory from both a spacewalk and an older
satellite server. I was able to share the spacewalk.py script with
those
server and produce an output, which is all one 1 line, and looks
something
like this: {"CentOS6_Servers": ["server1", "server2", "server3",
"server4", "server5", ... etc for 600+ servers and many many groops.

When I try this:

ansible CentOS6_Servers -a "hostname" -i
/etc/ansible/inventory/spacewalk_list_07-11-2014.txt

I get this -> ERROR: Invalid ini entry: [ncias-p584.nci.nih.gov, -
need
more than 1 value to unpack

Is this due to the file being all one line? Is this improper YAML
syntax,
maybe? Sorry, I am a new to YAML Syntax, and Ansible.

Am I using spacewalk.py incorrectly?

Yes. You should point Ansible to the script, not saved output (if the file given to -i is executable, Ansible will use it as dynamic inventory).
The error you are getting says that Ansible expects static inventories to be in an INI-like syntax.

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so, like this?

ansible -i spacewalk.py textfile.txt?

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David Jacobs <psychodj@gmail.com> napisał:

so, like this?

ansible -i spacewalk.py textfile.txt?

More like:
ansible CentOS6_Servers -i spacewalk.py -m ping

What was textfile.txt meant to be?

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ansible -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml

and spacewalk.py should be marked executable (chmod +x)

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Dnia śro, 16 lip 2014, 21:37:54 Michael DeHaan pisze:

ansible -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml

You mean "ansible-playbook -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml"?

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yes