Dynamic inventory script throws xmlrpc.client.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for cobbler/cobbler_api: 404 Not Found>

[ShrutiChavali]

Version

Cobbler 2.9.0
source: b'8010c5d8', b'Mon Feb 18 16:08:42 2019 +0100'
build time: Wed Feb 20 18:17:47 2019

Question

I am trying to use dynamic inventory of ansible. Copied the cobber.py script and I am trying to run the command, ./cobbler.py --list. It throws a ProtocolError.

Any help here or suggestion to run this?

[opoplawski]

FWIW - I'm using a modified script. See ansible/ansible#25926

[ShrutiChavali]

@opoplawski
Thanks for the script. It would help me a lot.
I have few issues while using the above script.

1. Error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ConfigParser' (Not supported by Python3)
   --> Changed this module to 'configparser', and it works

2. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xmlrpclib' (Not supported by Python3)
   --> Changed this as " import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib", and it works

3. File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/configparser.py", line 1138, in _unify_values
   sectiondict = self._sections[section]
   KeyError: 'cobbler'
   During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./cobbler.py", line 331, in
CobblerInventory()
File "./cobbler.py", line 80, in init
self.read_settings()
File "./cobbler.py", line 158, in read_settings
self.orderby_keyname = config.get('cobbler', 'orderby_keyname')
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/configparser.py", line 781, in get
d = self._unify_values(section, vars)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/configparser.py", line 1141, in _unify_values
raise NoSectionError(section)
configparser.NoSectionError: No section: 'cobbler'

--> I am looking into this currently. Please let me know if you have encountered the above, and if any solution.

Thanks a lot for you help.

[opoplawski]

Ah, sorry - I'm using a newer version in production. I'll try to get you a copy soon...

[opoplawski]

I've pushed my latest version to https://github.com/opoplawski/ansible/tree/cobbler/contrib/inventory

I see now that I removed environment variable support and the ability to ignore the config file - hope you weren't counting on that...

[ShrutiChavali]

@opoplawski
Thanks a lot for the revised script.
I tried to use the script you shared. The latest one. But I am missing out on something. Still getting this error:

File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/socket.py", line 745, in getaddrinfo
for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./cobbler.py", line 376, in
CobblerInventory()
File "./cobbler.py", line 95, in init
self.load_inventory_from_cache()
File "./cobbler.py", line 344, in load_inventory_from_cache
cache = open(self.cache_path_inventory, 'r')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/ansible-cobbler.index'

Not sure what I am missing.

[opoplawski]

What is your cobbler.ini file?

[ShrutiChavali]

I checked my cobbler.ini file. It was wrong, as in it was holding wrong host url. It works now. That helped a lot. I can see the list of my hosts.

Thanks a lot :)

[opoplawski]

Now provided as an inventory plugin: https://github.com/cobbler/ansible