Ansible dynamic inventory issue

[TheeMadWhiteHatter]

When trying to set Netbox as an inventory source in Ansible I am getting the following error:

The complete exception is provided below:

<class **'**;ModuleNotFoundError**'>
No module named 'jsonschema.compat'  Python version: 3.8.10 NetBox
version: 3.0.4
[WARNING]: Unable to parse /runner/project/netbox_inventory.yml as an inventory

source

ERROR! No inventory was parsed, please check your configuration and options.

[candlerb]

Can you paste your netbox_inventory.yml, with passwords blanked out?

[TheeMadWhiteHatter]

---

plugin: netbox.netbox.nb_inventory
api_endpoint: https://10.10.10.10
token: mytokeninfoinserthereabc123
validate_certs: false
config_context: false
host_key_checking: false
interfaces: true

I also changed the file name that it is pulling from to just hosts instead of netbox_inventory.yml. Now it at least populates in the drop down to select from. Still the same errors though.

[TheeMadWhiteHatter]

Also it is AWX version 18, on a minikube cluster on a Centos7 VM.

[candlerb]

I'm using standalone ansible 2.10.10, not AWX/Tower, under Ubuntu 18.04. Here's my config:

ansible.cfg

[defaults]
inventory = netbox.yaml
host_key_checking = False
nocows = 1
retry_files_enabled = False

[inventory]
enable_plugins = netbox, ini

netbox.yaml

# Requires:
# ansible-galaxy collection install netbox.netbox
#
# To test:
# ansible-inventory -v --list -i netbox.yaml

plugin: netbox.netbox.nb_inventory
api_endpoint: https://netbox.example.net/
token: XXXXXXXX
validate_certs: True

# Do not use config_context unless patch has been applied to
# /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/plugins/inventory/netbox.py
# See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/65431
config_context: True
group_by:
  - sites
  - device_roles
  # Grouping by tags for Netbox 2.9 fixed by https://github.com/netbox-community/ansible_modules/pull/333
  - tags
query_filters:
  - tag: ansible
  - status: active

Then running ansible-inventory --list will list all the devices and VMs downloaded from Netbox, and ansible -m ping all will connect to them.

What I suggest is that you get standalone ansible working fine. When that works, if you still have a problem with AWX, then that is something you can take up on an AWX-specific mailing list.

Your config looks reasonable to me, except that "host_key_checking" doesn't belong in the inventory config (it belongs in the ansible defaults). The set of allowed parameters is shown here.

[TheeMadWhiteHatter]

Standalone does work fine. I can pull hosts etc. I have the inventory in ansible.cfg set to the dynamic netbox inventory file. Exactly the same as in AWX, however AWX fails to parse it as an inventory. Per the error, I posted here. I have already posted in AWX and what i got was to create an execution environment that includes jdonschema as a dependency, I did with the same results.