# AWX job stuck at Waiting when executed on an Isolated Node

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-stuck-at-waiting-when-executed-on-an-isolated-node/34671>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-stuck-at-waiting-when-executed-on-an-isolated-node/34671 "2021-02-23T10:37:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWX\_Member](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AWX\_Member](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Member)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-stuck-at-waiting-when-executed-on-an-isolated-node/34671/1 "2021-02-23T10:37:10Z")

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Hello,

I have an AWX installation under the version 17.0.1 and I added an isolated node this my AWX installation.  
This node on is on a seperate network and the configuration of it looks fine. I execute from the AWX container awx\_task this command :

awx-manage test\_isolated\_connection --hostname XXX

And I get this output at the end :  
1.4.7  
META: ran handlers  
META: ran handlers

So I guess it is working fine, since it show the version of the “ansible-runner --version” command on the isolated node.

But the thing is, when I execute my template, the job is stuck at “Waiting” nothing else, no error or no timeout, nothing!

I specified in the inventory to use a different instance group, the one where my isolated node is (and also the instance in my instance group is showing as “available”) so I don’t really get why this is not working …

If you need more information, feel free to ask and thank you for your help!

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**Author:** ![AWX\_Member](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@AWX\_Member](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Member)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-job-stuck-at-waiting-when-executed-on-an-isolated-node/34671/2 "2021-02-24T08:22:50Z")

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Hello,

Problem solved, I had to remove my instance from my group instance (using this command: remove\_from\_queue --queuename XXXX --hostname XXXX) and add it back using but this time specifying the controller as the default one “tower”, like so : awx-manage register\_queue --queuename XXX --hostname XXX --controller tower

Also, I had then error when running my templated, so I had to make sure to install the Python 3 modules for those: ansible-runner pywinrm (using pip3)

In hope this helps someone else if needed.