Vmware_vm_inventory : Select a specific IP address for use by ansible

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Hello,

I am trying to use vmware_vm_inventory plugin, this is working but in my environment I need to select a specific IP for ansible inventory. Indeed my VM has several IPs, only one can be used by ansible.

Hopefully there is an exemple in the documentation for this particular need :slight_smile:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_vm_inventory_inventory.html#examples

Here is my config :

plugin: vmware_vm_inventory
strict: False
hostname: vcsa.domain.local
username: administrator@vsphere.local
password: PASSWORD
validate_certs: False
with_tags: False
hostnames:
    - 'guest.hostName'
    - 'config.name'
groups:
  VMs: True
compose:
      # Set the IP address used by ansible to one that starts by 10.207. 
      ansible_host: >-
        guest.net
        | selectattr('ipAddress')
        | map(attribute='ipAddress')
        | flatten
        | select('match', '^10.207.*')
        | list
        | first
      properties:
        - guest.net

The issue is that the test VM return the following

{
    "config.cpuHotAddEnabled": false,
    "config.cpuHotRemoveEnabled": false,
    "config.guestId": "debian9_64Guest",
    "config.hardware.numCPU": 2,
    "config.instanceUuid": "50211c6c-6947-555-dade0e-56c3a1adc846",
    "config.name": "glpi",
    "config.template": false,
    "config.uuid": "42471-8c7c-a6e8-b360-f021f533b782",
    "guest.guestId": "debian9_64Guest",
    "guest.guestState": "running",
    "guest.hostName": "glpi",
    "guest.ipAddress": "10.206.200.56",
    "name": "glpi",
    "properties": [
        "guest.net"
    ],
    "runtime.connectionState": "connected",
    "runtime.maxMemoryUsage": 2048,
    "summary.runtime.powerState": "poweredOn"
}

guest.ipAddress still return 10.206 interface instead of 10.207. interface IP.
Is there any way to debug this “compose” section ?

thank you for your help