# "validate\_certs" arg with ansible 2.2 and vmware module not skipping cert validation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/validate-certs-arg-with-ansible-2-2-and-vmware-module-not-skipping-cert-validation/23227>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/validate-certs-arg-with-ansible-2-2-and-vmware-module-not-skipping-cert-validation/23227 "2016-12-11T22:33:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![broncomz1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@broncomz1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/broncomz1)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/validate-certs-arg-with-ansible-2-2-and-vmware-module-not-skipping-cert-validation/23227/1 "2016-12-11T22:33:15Z")

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I’ve see several discussions where the “validate\_certs” arg should work (was fixed, [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues/2757](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/issues/2757) for example) in order to use self-signed certificates and skip cert validation in ansible 2.2, however I’m still seeing certificate issues when setting “validate\_certs=false”.

localhost | FAILED! =\> {  
“changed”: false,  
“failed”: true,  
“invocation”: {  
“module\_args”: {  
“hostname”: “172.31.240.202”,  
“password”: “VALUE\_SPECIFIED\_IN\_NO\_LOG\_PARAMETER”,  
“username”: “root”,  
“validate\_certs”: false  
},  
“module\_name”: “vmware\_vm\_facts”  
},  
“msg”: “[SSL: CERTIFICATE\_VERIFY\_FAILED] certificate verify failed (\_ssl.c:590)”

Any pointers to how to solve would be much appreciated. I may very well be doing something wrong here…new to ansible in general…

Thanks!