# VMWare based source gets wrong ansible\_host **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** vmware\ **Created:** [November 2, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-based-source-gets-wrong-ansible-host/25909 "2017-11-02T21:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Reagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@David\_Reagan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Reagan)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-based-source-gets-wrong-ansible-host/25909/1 "2017-11-02T21:04:50Z")
I have two nics on my vm. One for normal network operations, another dedicated to our SAN. When my VMWare source adds the vm to the inventory, the ansible\_host value is set to the ip of the SAN nic. As is ansible\_ssh\_host. DNS is configured to use the normal network nic’s ip address. Is there a way to fix that? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![matburt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/matburt/32/3612_2.png) [@matburt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/matburt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-based-source-gets-wrong-ansible-host/25909/2 "2017-11-03T03:44:24Z")
We return what is emitted by the core ansible vmware inventory script (we call it behind the scenes): [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware\_inventory.py](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware_inventory.py) It looks like you can control this: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware\_inventory.ini#L59-L61](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware_inventory.ini#L59-L61) We take some free-form configuration in the source\_vars section of the inventory source so if you can figure out what specific value is needed for host\_pattern to resolve what you want then you can put that in the “Source Vars” section of the Inventory Source when you are defining it. Unfortunately I don’t use a lot of vmware so I can’t help you figure out exactly what you need but the ini file I linked to should provide a good starting place. The ansible vmware inventory module uses pyvmomi behind the scenes which is a python interface to the vmware soap interface. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Reagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@David\_Reagan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Reagan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-based-source-gets-wrong-ansible-host/25909/3 "2017-11-03T18:31:32Z")
> We take some free-form configuration in the source\_vars section of the inventory source so if you can figure out what specific value is needed for host\_pattern to resolve what you want then you can put that in the “Source Vars” section of the Inventory Source when you are defining it. Ah, I hadn’t seen the host\_pattern key. Thanks. Now, to figure out what to put there… The correct ip isn’t even listed in the hosts variables section when I view that in the inventory. So, I somehow need to figure out a way to get info from both network cards into a place I can use it… Is that even something that’s possible without modifying [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware\_inventory.py](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/vmware_inventory.py) ? ---
**Author:** ![matburt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/matburt/32/3612_2.png) [@matburt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/matburt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/vmware-based-source-gets-wrong-ansible-host/25909/4 "2017-11-03T20:24:15Z")
It’s possible, I’m not sure though 😕 If you find it needs to be pushed into vmware\_inventory.py we can pull it in and then contribute it upstream to ansible.