# I have Ansible and Jenkins installed on Different Servers how can i configure both **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [January 23, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-have-ansible-and-jenkins-installed-on-different-servers-how-can-i-configure-both/32035 "2020-01-23T04:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sai\_Prasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sai\_Prasha](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sai_Prasha)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-have-ansible-and-jenkins-installed-on-different-servers-how-can-i-configure-both/32035/1 "2020-01-23T04:04:00Z")
I have Ansible and Jenkins on Windows but on different servers how can i establish a connection between this two to trigger a playbook based on inventory files What is the inventory path to be given? My inventory file is as shown below [win] 10.96.43.61 10.96.43.177 [win:vars] ansible\_user=Administrator ansible\_password=N0b0r33l ansible\_connection=winrm ansible\_winrm\_server\_cert\_validation=ignore ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/i-have-ansible-and-jenkins-installed-on-different-servers-how-can-i-configure-both/32035/2 "2020-01-24T17:31:30Z")
You can use the not-particularly-helpfully-named ‘Publish Over SSH’ Jenkins plugin [https://plugins.jenkins.io/publish-over-ssh](https://plugins.jenkins.io/publish-over-ssh) which lets you run arbitrary commands as well as transferring files. If your playbooks run for more than 2 minutes you will need to configure the ‘Exec timeout (ms)’ setting ( I found I had to do this in the common jenkins configuration and individually on each Jenkins job). Hope this helps, Jon