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in a different system. Frequent examples include LDAP, <a class="reference external" href="http://cobbler.github.com">Cobbler</a>,
or a piece of expensive enterprisey CMDB software. Ansible easily supports all
of these options via an external inventory system.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn&#8217;t already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty simple, as we&#8217;ll explain below &#8211; that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it&#8217;s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you have a data store system where an Ansible external inventory script doesn&#8217;t already exist, this may require a little coding, but we have a <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py">Cobbler example</a> in the main source tree &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty simple, as we&#8217;ll explain below &#8211; that would provide a good starting point. Like with modules, it&#8217;s possible to build an external inventory script in any language, as long as it returns JSON.</p>
<p>If you are familiar with Puppet terminology, this concept is basically the same as &#8216;external nodes&#8217;, with the slight difference that it also defines which hosts are managed.</p>
<div class="section" id="script-conventions">
<h3>Script Conventions<a class="headerlink" href="#script-conventions" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
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layer that allows it to represent data for multiple configuration management systems (even at the same time), and has
been referred to as a &#8216;lightweight CMDB&#8217; by some admins. This particular script will communicate with Cobbler
using Cobbler&#8217;s XMLRPC API.</p>
<p>To tie Ansible&#8217;s inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy <cite>this script &lt;https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/master/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py&gt;</cite> to /etc/ansible/hosts and <cite>chmod +x</cite> the file. cobblerd will now need
<p>To tie Ansible&#8217;s inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy <cite>this script &lt;https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/cobbler_external_inventory.py&gt;</cite> to /etc/ansible/hosts and <cite>chmod +x</cite> the file. cobblerd will now need
to be running when you are using Ansible.</p>
<p>Test the file by running <cite>./etc/ansible/hosts</cite> directly. You should see some JSON data output, but it may not have
anything in it just yet.</p>