Cannot delegate task to a windows host anymore

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Hello all,

I encounter a problem with my AWX instances and I was redirected here after opening an issue in the awx-ee project on Github.

Problem
I can’t delegate tasks to Windows host anymore.
This problem occurs a week ago approximately.
Also, I am totally able to run a task on a Windows host, only delegated tasks are an issue. So the host is reachable from AWX.

Context
I have two AWX instances (see detail below), one was installed why I encounter the problem, but the first has been working for month without a problem.

I also have an Ansible server who can still run tasks delegated to a Windows host. So Windows configuration does not seem to be the issue.

Here I the things I did to fix the problem :

  • Disable firewall on Windows host in case it was a connectivity issue.
  • When firewall was active, allowing “edge traversal” on the rule in case the firewall didn’t like traffic from OKD/AWX.
  • Declare the host in inventory using its FQDN (default was shortname) in case it was a name resolution problem.
  • Declare the host in inventory using its IP address (default was shortname) in case it was a name resolution problem.
  • Updating and rebooting the Windows host in case it was a name Windows weirdness.

At this point, I assume this is a bug introduced by a recent update. The only “moving part” I see would be this execution environment which is often updated. That’s why I opened an issue on the project in the first place.

Environment
First env :

  • AWX version: 19.5.0

  • AWX deployment target: OKD 4.8

  • This instance could run tasks on a Windows host before.
    Second env :

  • AWX version: 21.4.0

  • AWX deployment target: OKD 4.11

  • This instance was installed when the problem was detected.

The windows host uses the following parameters:

  • ansible_connection: winrm
  • ansible_port: 5985
  • ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm
  • become_method: runas
  • user and password are set to an active user with the proper rights.

Steps to reproduce

Run any job delegated to a Windows host.
In my case, i use the module “community.windows.win_dns_record” to add a DNS record in Active Directory.

Expected results
The task should run without any problems.

Actual results
Task output :
ntlm: HTTPConnectionPool(host='XXXX ', port=5985): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fa7da5c36a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 113] No route to host'))",

Where XXXX is the targeted host and not the host the task is delegated to.