Hi,
I have installed ansible on my linux controller, however I am unable to win_ping my windows host machine.
The controller and host are virtual machines hosted on my physical machine.
I am able to ping each machine in both directions from cmd prompt and the terminal, to verify that the machines can see each other.
I have followed all the steps from here :http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html
When running the command below I get a connection refused.
ansible windows -i /etc/anisible/hosts -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv
I have also tried using a playbook. However I get some cows 
and connection could be established.
ansible-playbook site.yml
with the following site.xml contents:
You said you’re getting a connection refused, so check the firewall and winrm settings on the Windows machine.
There’s an example script (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1) that takes care of WinRM making sure the box allows remote powershell exec, among other things. Likely you’re missing a step preparing the Windows machine to accept remote winrm connections.
I have disabled the firewall.
Output from Host machine when running remoting script:
VERBOSE: Verifying WS-MAN
VERBOSE: PS remoting is already active and running
VERBOSE: SSL-based remoting already active
VERBOSE: basic auth already enabled
Ok.
VERBOSE: PS Remoting successfully setup for AnsibleEnter code here…
This is the error on the controller:
Heres a log of my latest error:
<10.1.11.40> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: Administrator on PORT 5986 TO 10.1.11.40
<10.1.11.40> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=https://10.1.11.40:5986/wsman
10.1.11.40 | FAILED => Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 563, in _executor
exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 672, in _executor_internal
return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 843, in _executor_internal_inner
conn = self.connector.connect(actual_host, actual_port, actual_user, actual_pass, actual_transport, actual_private_key_file)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 44, in connect
self.active = conn.connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 132, in connect
self.protocol = self._winrm_connect()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.7.egg/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 90, in _winrm_connect
err_msg = str(exc.args[0])
IndexError: tuple index out of range
When you say “remote windows machine”, what version of Windows, what is the version of Ansible (ansible --version exact output), and did you run the setup script above or set it up manually?
Thanks!
Windows 2012 Server.
Ansible 1.8
I have run the setup script.
I can remote into into my windows host machine from another windows machine using
Invoke-Command -ComputerName AnsibleHost1 -ScriptBlock { Get-childitem c:} -credential $cred
I have also tried(not using https):
winrm identify -r:http://10.1.11.40:5985/wsman -auth:basic -u:administrator -p:password -encoding:utf-8
IdentifyResponse
ProtocolVersion = http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman.xsd
ProductVendor = Microsoft Corporation
ProductVersion = OS: 6.2.9200 SP: 0.0 Stack: 3.0
SecurityProfiles
SecurityProfileName = http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman/secprofile/http/basic, http://schemas.dmtf.org/
wbem/wsman/1/wsman/secprofile/https/basic, http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman/secprofile/http/spnego-kerberos, h
ttp://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wsman/1/wsman/secprofile/https/spnego-kerberos
Im think it has something to do with pywinrm, because when i trying running it on my linux machine through python i get the following error:
Hi all
I have exactly the same problem and I agree too that all points to an pywinrm issue.
Does anyone know what is causing this and how to solve it ?
Server controle : Ansible 1.7 running on Ubuntu 12.04
Node : Windows 2008 r2
The latest pywinrm (as of https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/commit/1bb5ee32a559624f9e2c08ba3b1b2f4bdf0d8bcb) has issues when using the winrm.Session class and the URL contains an IP address, so I wouldn’t expect your example above to work at the moment.
As mentioned in the other ansible-project thread, the IndexError should be fixed as of https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/07f12539eee2faac5fe831cd31f1f0a5d3e7e661 (which was committed Friday afternoon EDT).
Trying to use win_ping (or any other windows module) from a playbook was also broken until my commit earlier this evening (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/57dee4545b3c34d1e66943def8d5e45ee95d66bd) – That bug would’ve given you the error “Processing -File ‘C’ failed because the file does not have a ‘.ps1’ extension. Specify a valid Windows PowerShell script file name, and then try again.”
Per another thread on this list, downgrading winrm is the temporary answer. The issue needs to be brought up with wirm upstream.
See the thread entitled “[Ansible to Windows] IndexError: tuple index out of range”
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ansible-project/XCKgXFIOras/TogpnNtuXL4J