Hi Marco,
Use this below module I already used this. It is working for me.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/modules/vmware_guest_facts_module.html
- name: Gather facts from standalone ESXi server having datacenter as
'ha-datacenter'
vmware_guest_facts:
hostname: 192.168.1.209
username: [email protected]
password: vmware
datacenter: ha-datacenter
validate_certs: no
uuid: 421e4592-c069-924d-ce20-7e7533fab926
delegate_to: localhost
register: facts
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:36 AM Marco Reale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi indian
>
> Before all thanks for your kind reply.
> If you read my post (I hope it is clear enough), basically I need to get
> ONLY the mac address of a specific VM "testvm", put it in a variable and,
> using the regex, add it in a file.
> Do you have a vsphere to test my playbook?
> Please note that i did lot of internet searches and it seems that the hard
> part is to make working the folowing code that should do the trick:
>
> debug: msg="{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines['testvm'].mac_address }}"
>
> Best
>
> Marco
>
>
>
> Il gio 6 giu 2019, 9:28 AM Indian Velumani <[email protected]> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> Correct if I am wrong.
>>
>> Your base goal is to achieve adding a host based on the output of
>> *vmware_vm_facts
>> *in order to communicate or execute some
>> a function on that VM via ansible.
>>
>> For that, you can use dynamic host configuration in Ansible. That will
>> add a host dynamically and execute the module based on
>> your configuration.
>>
>> If you want any further help regarding please let me know. I will help
>> you.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Indian Velumani
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 3:02 AM Marco Reale <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys
>>>
>>> Is there someone that coul help on this?
>>>
>>> Il mer 22 mag 2019, 10:55 PM Marco Reale <[email protected]> ha
>>> scritto:
>>>
>>>> I have to goals with my plabook:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> a) get mac address from a specific VM running on vsphere
>>>>
>>>> b) add it to my inventory file
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My test environment is:
>>>> -Vsphere 6.5
>>>> -Ansible 2.7 running on Centos 7.6
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have been able to make point a) following this post How retrieve the
>>>> name of specific dictionary - Ansible
>>>> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53453718/how-retrieve-the-name-of-specific-dictionary-ansible>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Playbook:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # Deploy a guest from a template*
>>>> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
>>>> vars:
>>>> vcenter_hostname: virtvcsami1.virtlab.local
>>>> vcenter_user: [email protected]
>>>> vcenter_pass: Esxilab!1
>>>> vcenter_datastore: vsanDatastore
>>>> vcenter_datacenter: DatacenterMI
>>>> tasks:
>>>> - name: Gather VMware guest facts
>>>> vmware_vm_facts:
>>>> validate_certs: False
>>>> hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>>>> username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
>>>> password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
>>>> vm_type: vm
>>>> delegate_to: localhost
>>>> register: vm_guest_facts
>>>>
>>>> - debug: msg="{{ item.value.mac_address }}"
>>>> loop: "{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines|dict2items }}"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but now I still have two problems to solve:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Problem 1)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Playbook gets ALL virtual machines while I need to get just a VM named
>>>> "testvm"
>>>>
>>>> [root@nlnxmi1 testvmcdromiso]# ansible-playbook getvminfo.yml
>>>>
>>>> PLAY [127.0.0.1]
>>>> ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>> TASK [Gathering Facts]
>>>> *****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>> ok: [127.0.0.1]
>>>> TASK [Gather VMware guest facts]
>>>> *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>> ok: [127.0.0.1 -> localhost]
>>>> TASK [debug]
>>>> ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>> ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item={'key': u'kubemst01', 'value':
>>>> {u'guest_fullname': u'CentOS 7 (64-bit)', u'vm_network':
>>>> {u'00:50:56:be:de:b9': {u'ipv4': [u'192.168.40.31'], u'ipv6':
>>>> [u'fe80::250:56ff:febe:deb9']}, u'52:54:00:62:fe:fe': {u'ipv4':
>>>> [u'192.168.122.1'], u'ipv6': []}}, u'cluster': u'VirtlabMI',
>>>> u'esxi_hostname': u'virtesxmi3.virtlab.local', u'mac_address':
>>>> [u'00:50:56:be:de:b9'], u'power_state': u'poweredOn', u'ip_address':
>>>> u'192.168.40.31', u'uuid': u'423e7580-1ca4-a6ca-5cb4-5b8fa963d527'}}) => {
>>>> "msg": [ "00:50:56:be:de:b9" ] }
>>>>
>>>> ok: [127.0.0.1] => (item={'key': u'testvm', 'value':
>>>> {u'guest_fullname': >u'CentOS 7 (64-bit)', u'vm_network': {}, u'cluster':
>>>> u'VirtlabMI', >u'esxi_hostname': u'virtesxmi1.virtlab.local',
>>>> u'mac_address': >[u'00:50:56:be:a3:a0'], u'power_state': u'poweredOn',
>>>> u'ip_address': u'', >u'uuid': u'423e8645-ca2a-1097-2e1c-624810a461d1'}}) =>
>>>> { "msg": [ "00:50:56:be:a3:a0" ] } ......
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Trying to solve this tedious problem I posted on stackoverflow (
>>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56243269/ansible-vmware-vm-facts-get-mac-address-for-a-specific-vm-and-write-it-to-exist/56245634#56245634)
>>>> and a user gave me this suggestion:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----from stackoverflow----
>>>>
>>>> That's not a problem. It looks like the vmware_vm_facts module returns
>>>> a dictionary, so just ask for the vm you want:
>>>>
>>>> - debug: msg="{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines['testvm'].mac_address
>>>> }}"
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So....I changed my playbook as suggested:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # Deploy a guest from a template*
>>>> - hosts: 127.0.0.1
>>>> vars:
>>>> vcenter_hostname: virtvcsami1.virtlab.local
>>>> vcenter_user: [email protected]
>>>> vcenter_pass: Esxilab!1
>>>> vcenter_datastore: vsanDatastore
>>>> vcenter_datacenter: DatacenterMI
>>>> tasks:
>>>> - name: Gather VMware guest facts
>>>> vmware_vm_facts:
>>>> validate_certs: False
>>>> hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>>>> username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
>>>> password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
>>>> vm_type: vm
>>>> delegate_to: localhost
>>>> register: vm_guest_facts
>>>>
>>>> # - debug: msg="{{ item.value.mac_address }}"
>>>> # loop: "{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines|dict2items }}"
>>>> - debug: msg="{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines['testvm'].mac_address
>>>> }}"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but is this way I get an error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [root@nlnxmi1 testvmcdromiso]# ansible-playbook getvminfo.yml
>>>> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.
>>>> did not find expected key
>>>>
>>>> The error appears to have been in
>>>> '/etc/ansible/testvmcdromiso/getvminfo.yml': line 22, column 4, but may be
>>>> elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>>>>
>>>> The offending line appears to be:
>>>>
>>>> #loop: "{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines|dict2items }}"
>>>> - debug: msg="{{ vm_guest_facts.virtual_machines['testvm'].mac_address
>>>> }}"
>>>> ^ here
>>>> We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
>>>> missing quotes. >Always quote template expression brackets when they
>>>> start a value. For instance:
>>>>
>>>> with_items:
>>>> - {{ foo }}
>>>>
>>>> Should be written as:
>>>>
>>>> with_items:
>>>> - "{{ foo }}"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately the user on stackoverflow didn't reply anymore. This
>>>> mailing list is last chance to get it working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Problem 2)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Add mac address to existing inventory file or, if not possible, at
>>>> least in some file
>>>>
>>>> Just as a stupid test I tried adding the following code at the end:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - set_fact: vm_mac_address="prova"
>>>>
>>>> - name: Register host to Inventory
>>>> lineinfile:
>>>> path: /etc/ansible/testvmcdromiso/inventory
>>>> regexp: '(testvm)'
>>>> line: '\1 macaddres={{ vm_mac_address }}'
>>>> backrefs: yes [root@nlnxmi1 testvmcdromiso]# cat inventory
>>>> [testhost]
>>>> testvm macaddress=prova
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> but as you can see I just used a "fixed" string instead I need to get
>>>> the mac address from the running vm but never figure it out even after 2
>>>> days of attempts :(
>>>>
>>>> I'm just a beginner with ansible. Could you please help me?
>>>>
>>>>
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