Connecting to Windows host fails

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Hi Guys,

I’m new to Ansible. I’m trying to connect to ansible windows host. I have configured for windows by following the link (http://darrylcauldwell.com/how-to-setup-an-ansible-test-lab-for-windows-managed-nodes-custom-windows-modules/). Now, I’m not able to ping the windows server and getting the below error.

ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping

10.20.10.179 | FAILED! => {
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “ssl: ‘Session’ object has no attribute ‘merge_environment_settings’”

My intention to copy a file from my Ubuntu Ansible Controller machine and run the file on Windows host. Can anyone suggest me on this?

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You’ve got an old version of requests that’s probably owned by an OS package (IIRC Ubuntu 14.04 has this issue out of the box). pip won’t uninstall OS-owned packages, even though pywinrm declares it requires it.

You can usually fix this with:

pip install “requests>=2.10.0”

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Hi Matt,

I have followed the same but I’m still getting the same error. Please find the result below:

root@use-ansiblepoc:/etc/ansible# pip install “requests>=2.10.0”
Downloading/unpacking requests>=2.10.0
Downloading requests-2.11.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (514kB): 514kB downloaded
Installing collected packages: requests
Found existing installation: requests 2.2.1
Not uninstalling requests at /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, owned by OS
Successfully installed requests
Cleaning up…
root@use-ansiblepoc:/etc/ansible# ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping
10.20.10.179 | FAILED! => {
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “ssl: ‘Session’ object has no attribute ‘merge_environment_settings’”

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It will not install from pip when the OS package is install,
you need to remove the OS package first.
   apt-get purge python-requests

5

Thanks Kai,

I worked and moved forward a bit but got the below error.

root@use-ansiblepoc:/etc/ansible# ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping
10.20.10.179 | FAILED! => {
“failed”: true,
“msg”: “ssl: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed”

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Guys, can I get any help on this?

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Try adding these into your group_vars/windows.yml file.

ansible_connection: winrm ansible_ssh_port: 5986 ansible_winrm_transport: ssl validate_certs: false ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

8

Did adding

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

Fix this for you?

Jon

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No, It didn’t work. I already tried that last week. Any other option?

10

What configuration does it need for PowerShell?

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Running this script should do all the configuration of WinRM that is needed to control via ansible. if that is what you mean.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1