Pinging Windows Host Now Returns Unexpected Error

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Hello,

I am testing connection to my windows host. My host file is set up as below.

[windows]
X.X.X.X

[windows:vars]
ansible_user=
ansible_password=
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_port=5985

I was able to connect to the host fine before but now when testing with, ‘ansible windows -m ping’, I get the following error. I’m not sure what could’ve change between my tests. any guidance please. Regards.

[WARNING]: No python interpreters found for host x.x.x.x (tried [‘/usr/bin/python’, ‘python3.7’, ‘python3.6’, ‘python3.5’, ‘python2.7’, ‘python2.6’, ‘/usr/libexec/platform-python’, ‘/usr/bin/python3’, ‘python’])
x.x.x.x | FAILED! => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python”
},
“changed”: false,
“module_stderr”: "Exception calling "Create" with "1" argument(s): "At line:4 char:21\r\n+ def _ansiballz_main():\r\n+ ~\r\nAn expression was expected after ‘(’.\r\nAt line:13 char:27\r\n+ except (AttributeError, OSError):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:15 char:7\r\n+ if scriptdir is not None:\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing ‘(’ after ‘if’ in if statement.\r\nAt line:22 char:7\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing ‘(’ after ‘if’ in if statement.\r\nAt line:22 char:30\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing expression after ‘,’.\r\nAt line:22 char:25\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nThe ‘<’ operator is reserved for future use.\r\nAt line:27 char:34\r\n+ def invoke_module(modlib_path, temp_path, json_params):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:28 char:40\r\n+ z = zipfile.ZipFile(modlib_path, mode=‘a’)\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:31 char:33\r\n+ zinfo = zipfile.ZipInfo()\r\n+ ~\r\nAn expression was expected after ‘(’.\r\nAt line:34 char:25\r\n+ z.writestr(zinfo, sitecustomize)\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nNot all parse errors were reported. Correct the reported errors and try again."\r\nAt line:6 char:1\r\n+ $exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:slight_smile: , MethodInvocationException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParseException\r\n \r\nThe expression after ‘&’ in a pipeline element produced an object that was not valid. It must result in a command \r\nname, a script block, or a CommandInfo object.\r\nAt line:7 char:2\r\n+ &$exec_wrapper\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:slight_smile: , RuntimeException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadExpression\r\n ",
“module_stdout”: “”,
“msg”: “MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error”,
“rc”: 1

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This is verbose output:

ansible 2.9.11
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [‘/home/ansible/.ansible/plugins/modules’, ‘/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]
ansible python module location = /home/ansible/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /home/ansible/.local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.6.9 (default, Oct 8 2020, 12:12:24) [GCC 8.4.0]
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
host_list declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /etc/ansible/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /etc/ansible/hosts inventory source with ini plugin
Loading callback plugin minimal of type stdout, v2.0 from /home/ansible/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/minimal.py
META: ran handlers
<x.x.x.x> Attempting python interpreter discovery
< x.x.x.x > ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible on PORT 5985 TO x.x.x.x
EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
Using module file /home/ansible/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/ping.py
Pipelining is enabled.
EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
[WARNING]: No python interpreters found for host x.x.x.x (tried [‘/usr/bin/python’, ‘python3.7’, ‘python3.6’, ‘python3.5’, ‘python2.7’, ‘python2.6’, ‘/usr/libexec/platform-python’, ‘/usr/bin/python3’, ‘python’])
x.x.x.x | FAILED! => {
“ansible_facts”: {
“discovered_interpreter_python”: “/usr/bin/python”
},
“changed”: false,
“module_stderr”: "Exception calling "Create" with "1" argument(s): "At line:4 char:21\r\n+ def _ansiballz_main():\r\n+ ~\r\nAn expression was expected after ‘(’.\r\nAt line:13 char:27\r\n+ except (AttributeError, OSError):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:15 char:7\r\n+ if scriptdir is not None:\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing ‘(’ after ‘if’ in if statement.\r\nAt line:22 char:7\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing ‘(’ after ‘if’ in if statement.\r\nAt line:22 char:30\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing expression after ‘,’.\r\nAt line:22 char:25\r\n+ if sys.version_info < (3,):\r\n+ ~\r\nThe ‘<’ operator is reserved for future use.\r\nAt line:27 char:34\r\n+ def invoke_module(modlib_path, temp_path, json_params):\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:28 char:40\r\n+ z = zipfile.ZipFile(modlib_path, mode=‘a’)\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nAt line:31 char:33\r\n+ zinfo = zipfile.ZipInfo()\r\n+ ~\r\nAn expression was expected after ‘(’.\r\nAt line:34 char:25\r\n+ z.writestr(zinfo, sitecustomize)\r\n+ ~\r\nMissing argument in parameter list.\r\nNot all parse errors were reported. Correct the reported errors and try again."\r\nAt line:6 char:1\r\n+ $exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:slight_smile: , MethodInvocationException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParseException\r\n \r\nThe expression after ‘&’ in a pipeline element produced an object that was not valid. It must result in a command \r\nname, a script block, or a CommandInfo object.\r\nAt line:7 char:2\r\n+ &$exec_wrapper\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:slight_smile: , RuntimeException\r\n + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadExpression\r\n ",
“module_stdout”: “”,
“msg”: “MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error”,
“rc”: 1
}

3

You need to use win_ping and not ping. It’s trying to run Python code in a PowerShell engine which fails.

4

Thank or the input, I thought ping module was universal. Appreciate the response