Setup

No spaces, periods or special characters except underscore (_) and dash (-)

Unique label

DO NOT prepend with your tenant name and an underscore, e.g. mytenant_

Select the desired Ansible Tower Endpoint

New field
Select Static to enable operations relating to Ansible Tower via API rather than having to provide root access for SSH.

Select Dynamic to enable operations relating to Ansible Tower via root access for SSH (method for SovLabs Plug-in 2018.2.7 and older)

Auto-generated list of vRA Business Groups, if any exist

Select desired vRA Business Groups. Leave blank to select all

Specify the properties (key, value) to filter on. May have zero or more property filters

Define how VMs will be grouped via one or more string characters.

Used in the groups definitions below to separate group names.

Shown when 'Use Import Set?' is checked

List groups, separated by the character defined in Group separator above.

The group will be omitted if the template does not resolve

This field is templatable. Click the link below to view documentation on the SovLabs Template Engine

Leave blank to get all VMs in a page result

Specify the maximum number of VMs to return at one time, will make multiple calls to get the entire inventory

Enter a value of one or more characters that will replace dots (periods) that may occur in certain vRA custom properties, allowing Ansible to properly utilize them. For example, an underscore in this field (_) would translate a vRA custom property named my.dc as my_dc when referenced within an Ansible playbook.

Select to create the cache directory and dynamic inventory configuration YAML file on the indicated Ansible Tower endpoint

Read-only field provided as a reference

References the Ansible Tower Endpoint selected in the previous tab

Read-only field provided as a reference

Displays the full Ansible Tower Endpoint's URL.

The cache directory and dynamic inventory configuration YAML file will be placed in the /sovlabs directory

The command for the type of Linux the Ansible Tower server is using.

If the Host Username defined below has root privilege, this field can be left blank

A username who is in the sudoer file or otherwise root privilege

Host username's password

Auto-generated and may be overwritten by the user

The URL of the vRO Host

Auto-generated and may be overwritten by the user

The Port of the vRO Host

The vRO Username of the vRO Host

The Password for the vRO Username

Shown when 'Inventory Type' is Dynamic

Select to create a new Organization or use an existing one

Create Organization? is not checked

Auto-generated list based on Ansible Tower Endpoint selected

Select a desired Organization

Create Organization? is checked

Type in the new Organization name to create

Shown when 'Create Organization?' is checked

New Organization description

Select to create a new Inventory or use an existing one

Create Inventory? is not checked

Auto-generated list based on Ansible Tower Endpoint selected

Select a desired Inventory

Create Inventory? is checked

Type in the new Inventory name to create

Shown when 'Create Inventory?' is checked

New Inventory description

Select to create a new Group or use an existing one

Create Group? is not checked

Auto-generated list based on Ansible Tower Endpoint selected

Select a desired Group

Create Group? is checked

Type in the new Group name to create

Shown when 'Create Group?' is checked

New Group description

Option only available to Ansible Tower 3.2+

Select to create a new Inventory Source or use an existing one

Create Inventory Source? is not checked

Auto-generated list based on Ansible Tower Endpoint selected

Select a desired Inventory Source

Create Inventory Source? is checked

Type in the new Inventory Source name to create

Shown when 'Create Inventory Source?' is checked

New Inventory Source description

Select from the provided options

Inventory Script Options is either of the 'Assign to Group' option is selected

Auto-generated list based on Ansible Tower Endpoint and Organization selected. If Organization is blank, gets all

Select a desired Inventory Source

Inventory Script Options is Create new with Latest Custom Inventory

Type in the new Inventory Script name to create

New Inventory Script description

Select to immediately delete the VM from Ansible Tower Inventory (Group) list and cache when the VM is deprovisioned. Not checking this checkbox, the VM may still appear to be in inventory until the Inventory is synced or a new VM is added into the Inventory