Stephen, if I understood your question/situation, I've dealt with the same issue in the past and my conclusion is that ansible's inventory (or in general the inventory of any automation system) isn't the right solution.
What you're looking for is a CMDB or in other words an inventory/asset system where you can just record what you have and some basic properties for each asset. From there you can generate your ansible's inventory and it also becomes the place from where ansible can get host's data to generate configuration files like dns, nagios's etc (which is what we do). I'm actually in the process of setting that up for the new place where I'm at. One choice you could look at is ralph, also written in python and with apis to integrate into ansible: http://ralph.allegro.tech/ other people may have better recommendations, for me the priority was to find something better than a csv file, but not as complex as some of the stuff people use in enterprise scenarios. hope that helps, Spike On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 4:06 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a large number of out of band hardware (IBM IMM, routers owned > by other groups, Dracs (which will be ansibled soon), and similar odd > things) which I need to keep track of for various other software like > nagios and maybe DNS configs. Since I keep all the other hosts in the > ansible inventory files I thought that I could use that, but I > realized that this causes problems when master playbooks and such are > run which cause items in the inventory to be 'hit'. I wondered if > there was some sort of ansible_connect=none flag but realized that is > probably not what the inventory file is meant for (even if it would > have been convenient to me). > > The other is to create a variable which lists all of these hosts and > then just update that when needed versus 3-4 other places. However I > wanted to see if people had a method that I was missing after going > through the first 2 pages of google search. How do people keep track > of hardware that they may need for configurations that may not be > ansibled itself? > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CANnLRdicAW_SCZE3OkrKMPqr3F8NXj-Sxc9h5Ne2y%3Dw9mWQDmQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAPE6YbQUvpMPVPyQed2i%2BUUW1PdYWDeW%3D9DmGQ0Mwa%2Bs4iqAiA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
