[VMWARE][TAG] Using vm tags to filter an vCenter inventory

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Hello,

I’m sorry to ask this question again, as I’ve observed that the use of VM-related tags in vCenter has already been addressed several times. But I still don’t know if it’s possible with AWX to filter an inventory via VM tags with the “Instance Filters” option.

I used ansible (ansible 2.9.6) before without AWX and I could use the tags associated with my VMs to filter the servers I had to process.
I can’t reproduce this operation with AWX (v13.0) because the tags don’t seem to go back into the VMs properties.

I saw that there was a “with_tags: True” option with the Ansible dynamic inventory plugin. Is it possible to configure this option in AWX. Does AWX use the same plugin?

Thank for your help

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Hello,

I saw that there was a “with_tags: True” option with the Ansible dynamic inventory plugin. Is it possible to configure this option in AWX. Does AWX use the same plugin?

Yes.Check the docs
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/inventories.html#ug-source-vmvcenter

Good luck!

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Hi

thanks for your help

I’d already been through the doc. I already tried to set the “with_tags: True” option in “Source Variables”. It doesn’t seem to work.

In the reference ini file, I can’t find the “with_tags” option.
https://github.com/ansible-collections/vmware/blob/main/scripts/inventory/vmware_inventory.ini

So I wonder if the use of tags is possible with AWX.