NIOS Inventory

Use the nios_inventory plug-in to query the NIOS Grid for host records, and use the response data to populate the inventory file.

The following table describes the parameters you can define in the nios_inventory module:

Parameter	Required/Optional	Description
host	Required	Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote instance of NIOS WAPI over REST. You can also use the `INFOBLOX_HOST` environment variable to specify a value.
`username`	Required	Specifies the user name to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. You can also use the `INFOBLOX_HOST` environment variable to specify a value
`password`	Required	Specifies the password to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance of NIOS. You can also use the `INFOBLOX_HOST` environment variable to specify a value
`hostfilter`	Optional	Contains the key/value pair that the plug-in uses to filter the host records to be returned.
`extattrs`	Optional	Allows you to filter the returned host records based on the extensible attributes assigned to them.
`provider`	Required	Defines the details of the connection: `host`: The DNS host name or IP address to connect to the remote instance of NIOS. `username`: The user name to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance. `password`: The password to use for authenticating the connection to the remote instance. For information on additional fields you can define, see the list of subparameters in the NIOS Modules for Ansible Collections topic.
`connection`	Required	The `nios_inventory` module must be run locally.

Examples

plugin: infoblox.nios_modules.nios_inventory
host: blox.example.com
username: admin