{"id":5640,"date":"2018-11-30T02:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T02:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T09:21:26","slug":"ansible-tower-administration-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/ansible-tower-administration-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansible Tower Administration Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ansible-Tower-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ansible-Tower-copy.png 400w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Ansible-Tower-copy-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ansible Tower Support &#8211; If you have paid membership, you can contact the support team at<\/strong> https:\/\/access.redhat.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to understand Ansible Tower Subscription Types<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Self-Support<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise: Standard<\/li>\n<li>Enterprise: Premium<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>https:\/\/docs.ansible.com\/ansible-tower\/latest\/html\/administration\/license-support.html#subscription-types<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trial licenses for Ansible Tower are available at<\/strong><br>\nhttp:\/\/ansible.com\/license<\/p>\n<p><strong>To acquire a license &amp; Pricing for additional Managed Nodes, visit:<\/strong><br>\nhttp:\/\/www.ansible.com\/pricing\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Stopping\/Starting\/Restarting Ansible Tower?<\/strong><br>\n$ \/usr\/bin\/ansible-tower-service stop<br>\n$ \/usr\/bin\/ansible-tower-service start<br>\n$ \/usr\/bin\/ansible-tower-service restart<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Import Inventory File in Ansible Tower?<\/strong><br>\n$ ansible-inventory [options] [host|group]<br>\n$ ansible-inventory -i<br>\n$ tower-manage inventory_import &#8211;source=.\/inventory.yaml &#8211;inventory-name=&#8221;DevOps School&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Troubleshooting Ansible Tower?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tower server errors are logged in \/var\/log\/tower<br>\nSupervisors logs can be found in \/var\/log\/supervisor\/<br>\nNginx web server errors are logged in the httpd error log<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to work with Ansible Tower Command line?<\/strong><br>\ntower-cli is a command line tool for Ansible Tower. 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