# Trouble in using netscaler module of ansible **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [December 2, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-in-using-netscaler-module-of-ansible/23162 "2016-12-02T09:18:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chitrangda_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-in-using-netscaler-module-of-ansible/23162/1 "2016-12-02T09:18:44Z")
Hi, I am trying to use netscaler module of ansible like below:- “ansible host -m netscaler -a “nsc\_host=10.102.56.141 user=nsroot password=nsroot”” But I am getting the below error:- ‘ERROR! Specified hosts and/or --limit does not match any hosts’ Even with -vvv ,I get the following:- “[root@localhost roles]# ansible host -m netscaler -a “nsc\_host=10.102.56.141 user=nsroot password=nsroot” -vvv Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file ERROR! Specified hosts and/or --limit does not match any hosts” Can anybody help me how to connect to netscaler with ansible. The ansible ping gives following error:- “[root@localhost roles]# ansible 10.102.56.143 -m ping -vvv Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file \<10.102.56.143\> ESTABLISH SSH CONNECTION FOR USER: None \<10.102.56.143\> SSH: EXEC ssh -C -q -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlPath=/root/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r 10.102.56.143 '/bin/sh -c '”‘"’( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1480696563.27-207661911591794`” && echo ansible-tmp-1480696563.27-207661911591794=“`echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1480696563.27-207661911591794`” ) && sleep 0’“'”‘’ 10.102.56.143 | UNREACHABLE! =\> { “changed”: false, “msg”: “Failed to connect to the host via ssh.”, “unreachable”: true } " ---
**Author:** ![Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chitrangda_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-in-using-netscaler-module-of-ansible/23162/2 "2016-12-07T08:28:04Z")
Hi Can someone please help me with this? ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-in-using-netscaler-module-of-ansible/23162/3 "2016-12-07T08:50:39Z")
Can you try ansible **localhost** -m netscaler -a “nsc\_host=10.102.56.141 user=nsroot password=nsroot” -vvv ​Serge​ ---
**Author:** ![Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@Chitrangda\_Kapoor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chitrangda_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-in-using-netscaler-module-of-ansible/23162/4 "2016-12-07T15:29:54Z")
Hi Serge, I tried the following:- [root@localhost ~]# ansible localhost -m netscaler -a “nsc\_host=10.102.56.141 user=nsroot password=nsroot” -vvv Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file \<127.0.0.1\> ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root \<127.0.0.1\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘( umask 77 && mkdir -p “`echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272`” && echo ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272=“`echo /tmp/ansible/$USER/ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272`” ) && sleep 0’ \<127.0.0.1\> PUT /tmp/tmp8MRvit TO /tmp/ansible/root/ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272/netscaler \<127.0.0.1\> EXEC /bin/sh -c ‘LANG=C LC\_ALL=C LC\_MESSAGES=C /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible/root/ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272/netscaler; rm -rf “/tmp/ansible/root/ansible-tmp-1481150804.2-134977495866272/” \> /dev/null 2\>&1 && sleep 0’ localhost | FAILED! =\> { “changed”: false, “failed”: true, “invocation”: { “module\_args”: { “action”: “enable”, “name”: “localhost.localdomain”, “nsc\_host”: “10.102.56.141”, “nsc\_protocol”: “https”, “password”: “nsroot”, “type”: “server”, “user”: “nsroot”, “validate\_certs”: true }, “module\_name”: “netscaler” }, “msg”: “Failed to validate the SSL certificate for 10.102.56.141:443. Make sure your managed systems have a valid CA certificate installed. If the website serving the url uses SNI you need python \>= 2.7.9 on your managed machine or you can install the `urllib3`, `pyopenssl`, `ndg-httpsclient`, and `pyasn1` python modules to perform SNI verification in python \>= 2.6. You can use validate\_certs=False if you do not need to confirm the servers identity but this is unsafe and not recommended. Paths checked for this platform: /etc/ssl/certs, /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem, /etc/pki/tls/certs, /usr/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org, /etc/ansible” } Do we need to install python on the netscaler ? no permission for that though.