[Warning]: Found both group and host with same name

[zhongl]

When executed ansible to ping all host with alicloud.py, I got this:

> ansible -i alicloud.py all -m ping -u root
 [WARNING]: Found both group and host with same name: i_j6cgu5l5nhep9wim2xly

i_j6cgu5l5nhep9wim2xly | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ssh: Could not resolve hostname i_j6cgu5l5nhep9wim2xly: nodename nor servname provided, or not known\r\n",
    "unreachable": true
}
47.52.225.249 | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

My alicloud.ini is:

# Ansible Alibaba Cloud(Alicloud) ECS dynamic inventory script settings
#

[ecs]

# Alicloud regions to make calls to. Set this to 'all' to make request to all regions
# in Alicloud and then merge the results together. Alternatively, set this to a comma
# separated list of regions. For example, regions = cn-beijing,eu-central-1,ap-southeast-1,us-east-1
#regions = all
regions = cn-hongkong

# In addition, set 'regions_exclude' to a comma separated list of regions to filter 'all' regions.
#regions_exclude = us-west-1,ap-northeast-1


# When generating inventory, Ansible needs to know how to address a ECS instance.
# Each ECS instance has server ip address variables associated with it.
# This destination_variable is used as the address of a server, and it support
# following value:
#   - public_ip_address: return the public IP address of the ECS server
#   - eip_address: return the elastic IP address of the ECS server
#   - private_ip_address: return the inner or private IP address of the ECS server
# WARNING: For instances in a private subnet, this should be set to 'private_ip_address',
#           and Ansible must be run from within the subnet.
destination_variable = public_ip_address


# This allows you to override the inventory_name with an ecs server attribute,
# instead of using the destination_variable above. Addressing (aka ansible_ssh_host)
# will still use destination_variable.
# WARNING: ECS server attribute 'tags' should be written as 'tag_TAGNAME',
#           E.g. hostname_variable = tag_my-ansible
hostname_variable = instance_id


# By default, only ECS instances in the 'running' status are returned.
# Set 'all_instances' to True to return instances in all status.
# Set instance_states to return as a comma-separated list. This
# option will be overriden when 'all_instances' is True.
all_instances = True
# instance_states = pending, running, starting, stopping, stopped


# In order to avoiding calling Alicloud API frequently, we cache the results of an API call.
# Set this to the path you want cache files to be written to. Two files
# will be written to this directory:
#   - ansible-alicloud.cache
#   - ansible-alicloud.index
cache_path = ~/.ansible/tmp

# Set the number of seconds to consider the cache file is valid. After the valid
# seconds, a new API call will be made, and the cache file will be updated.
# To disable the cache, set this value to 0
cache_max_age = 0


# Organize groups into a nested/hierarchy instead of a flat namespace.
nested_groups = False

# Replace - tags when creating groups to avoid issues with ansible
replace_dash_in_groups = True


# If set this to true, any tag of the form "a,b,c" will be expanded into a list
# and the results are used to create additional tag_* inventory groups.
expand_csv_tags = False


# This supports to classify and manage ECS inventory by configuring several groups.
group_by_instance_id = True
group_by_region = True
group_by_availability_zone = True
group_by_image_id = True
group_by_instance_type = True
group_by_vpc_id = True
group_by_vswitch_id = True
group_by_security_group = True
group_by_tag_keys = True
group_by_tag_none = True


# If you only want to include hosts that match a certain regular expression
# pattern_include = myhost-*

# If you want to exclude any hosts that match a certain regular expression
# pattern_exclude = myhost-*


# Set this can be used to retrieve specified ECS instances for inventory.
# For the full list of possible filters, please read the ECS API
# docs: https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/25506.htm?spm=a3c0i.o54244zh.b99.175.1106d719NDxcYR
# The filters are key/value pairs separated by '=', to list multiple filters use
# a list separated by commas. See examples below.

# Retrieve only instances with (key=value) tool=ansible tag
# instance_filters = tag:tool=ansible
# Retrieve ecs.n4.small instances AND instances with tag tool=ansible
# instance_filters = instance_type=ecs.n4.small, tag:tool=ansible

[credentials]

# The Alicloud credentials can optionally be specified here. Credentials specified
# here will be ignored if the environment variable ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY(or ALICLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID)
# and ALICLOUD_SECRET_KEY(or ALICLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY) are set.
#
# Supplying Alicloud credentials here is not recommended, as it introduces
# non-trivial security concerns. It is strongly recommended using environment variable.
#
# alicloud_access_key = Abcd1234
# alicloud_secret_key = Abcd2345

[prasathsekar]

Hi, i too have the same issue. If my ansible pings the alicloud ip address it shows success but using host it is unreachable. i had struck in this for the past 3 days. Kindly answer what would be the issue??

[zhongl]

@prasathsekar i wrote my own inventory script to fixed this problem, it may help you too, https://github.com/zhongl/aliyun-ansible-inventory .

[xuchen81]

I ran into the same error, any ideas or fixes?

[lixue323]

Hi, I am sorry for late reply. This issue has been fixed by the latest alicloud.py, please download it and try again. Please let me know if there are other issues.
cc @xiaozhu36