Re: [ansible-project] Question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin

2023-09-28 Thread Brian Coca
The basic configuration items are not templatable at all as no vars were accessible when designed, extra vars got added later for 'constructed' features. We do have plans to make this work, specially with vaults (you can vault the file, but not use inline vaults). -- -- Brian Coca -- Y

Re: [ansible-project] Question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin

2023-09-28 Thread Kosala Atapattu (කෝසල අතපත්තු)
Inventory plugins can only read from ENV variables. Not sure why, but seems like a architectural limitation. Most of the inventory plugins either read from files (like AWS) or from ENV variables. Sent from my iPhoneOn 29/09/2023, at 5:17 AM, J M wrote:Many thank, works!!!Because not work with --e

Re: [ansible-project] Question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin

2023-09-28 Thread J M
Many thank, works!!! Because not work with --extra-vars? Regards El jueves, 28 de septiembre de 2023 a las 18:09:18 UTC+2, Will McDonald escribió: > Could you use the environment variable ANSIBLE_NMAP_ADDRESS as documented > below as an alternative? > > > https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/lat

Re: [ansible-project] Question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin

2023-09-28 Thread Will McDonald
Could you use the environment variable ANSIBLE_NMAP_ADDRESS as documented below as an alternative? https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/nmap_inventory.html#parameter-address https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/environment_variables.html#envvar-ANSIB

[ansible-project] Question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin

2023-09-28 Thread J M
Hi, I have a question of howto use external variables in the nmap plugin. I have a simple yml: plugin: nmap address: 192.168.10.0/24 ... But I need to pass the network range as a external variable, as example: plugin: nmap address: '{{ mynetrange }}' # I tested this argument also: use_extra_vars