Chapter 16. The awx-manage Utility

awx-manage is a mechanism by which an automation controller administrator can import inventory directly into automation controller.

To use awx-manage properly, you must first create an inventory in automation controller to use as the destination for the import.

For help with awx-manage, run the following command:

awx-manage inventory_import [--help]

The inventory_import command synchronizes an automation controller inventory object with a text-based inventory file, dynamic inventory script, or a directory of one or more, as supported by core Ansible.

When running this command, specify either an --inventory-id or --inventory-name, and the path to the Ansible inventory source (--source).

awx-manage inventory_import --source=/ansible/inventory/ --inventory-id=1

By default, inventory data already stored in automation controller blends with data from the external source.

To use only the external data, specify --overwrite.

To specify that any existing hosts get variable data exclusively from the --source, specify --overwrite_vars.

The default behavior adds any new variables from the external source, overwriting keys that already exist, but preserving any variables that were not sourced from the external data source.

awx-manage inventory_import --source=/ansible/inventory/ --inventory-id=1 --overwrite

awx-manage has a variety of commands used to clean old data from automation controller. Automation controller administrators can use the automation controller Management Jobs interface for access or use the command line.

For more information about the awx-manage provision_instance and awx-manage deprovision_instance commands, see Clustering.

Use this command to gather analytics on-demand outside of the predefined window (the default is 4 hours):

$ awx-manage gather_analytics --ship

For customers with disconnected environments who want to collect usage information about unique hosts automated across a time period, use this command:

awx-manage host_metric --since YYYY-MM-DD --json

The --since parameter is optional.

The --json flag specifies the output format and is optional.