Unable to create Smart Inventory from information of Inventory created in different Organizations

[garamirseokim]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

Unable to create Smart Inventory from information of Inventory created in different Organizations even if users have inventory "Admin" permission.

ENVIRONMENT

Ansible Tower version: 3.7.0 and 3.6.2
Operating System: RHEL 7.7

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Creating Access
Login to Dashboard as admin user

1. Create Organization "ORG-GROUP" and "ORG-TEAM"
2. Create Team "MY-TEAM" (Organization is ORG-TEAM)
3. Create User "testuser" (Organization is ORG-TEAM)
4. Register "testuser" with "MY-TEAM" Team
5. Inventory Create "Test Inventory" and register some hosts (Organization is ORG-GROUP)
6. Assign Admin Role of "Test Inventory" to Team "MY-TEAM"

Creating Smart Inventory
Login to Dashboard again as testuser user

7. Make sure "Test Inventory" is existing in Inventory
8. Check that the host can be listed from the HOST tab of "Test Inventory" and you are able to see the host list.

9. Try to create a Smart Inventory

EXPECTED RESULTS

Able to search the host list from Dynamic/Static Inventory(Test Inventory) to create Smart Inventory with user "testuser".

ACTUAL RESULTS

Unable to search any host from Dynamic/Static Inventory(Test Inventory) to create a Smart Inventory with user "testuser".

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

None

[wenottingham]

Note that the smart inventory will still be limited to a particular organization. Can you create it via the API?

[garamirseokim]

@wenottingham I was able to create a Smart Inventory via API but I can't see the host list. Is there any other workaround?

{
    "name": "newSmartInventory",
    "description": "",
    "organization": 3,
    "kind": "smart",
    "host_filter": null,
    "variables": "",
    "insights_credential": null,
    "host_filter": "name__icontains=192.168.100.222"
}

[wenottingham]

You have host_filter twice in that output, I don't think that's the actual definition?

[garamirseokim]

@wenottingham Thank you for your feedback. I tried it again with single host_filter as below but I still can't see the host list.

{
    "name": "newSmartInventory",
    "description": "",
    "organization": 3,
    "kind": "smart",
    "variables": "",
    "insights_credential": null,
    "host_filter": "name__icontains=192.168.100.222"
}

[TheRealHaoLiu]

Smart inventories is deprecated in favor of constructed inventory #13303