# Windows Tag MisMatch **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [May 31, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362 "2015-05-31T15:59:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/1 "2015-05-31T15:59:33Z")
I can’t seem to get anything to work over winrm. I keep getting this error no matter what I try. I have run the setup scripts. [ansible-stuff]$ ansible -i inventory windows7-ansible4 -m setup -vvvv ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: stew on PORT 5986 TO windows7-ansible4 WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=[https://windows7-ansible4:5986/wsman](https://windows7-ansible4:5986/wsman) REMOTE\_MODULE setup EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name “ansible-tmp-1433087659.28-74445365416872”).FullName | Write-Host -Separator ‘’; WINRM EXEC ‘PowerShell’ [‘-NoProfile’, ‘-NonInteractive’, ‘-EncodedCommand’, ‘KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADAAOAA3ADYANQA5AC4AMgA4AC0ANwA0ADQANAA1ADMANgA1ADQAMQA2ADgANwAyACIAKQAuAEYAdQBsAGwATgBhAG0AZQAgAHwAIABXAHIAaQB0AGUALQBIAG8AcwB0ACAALQBTAGUAcABhAHIAYQB0AG8AcgAgACcAJwA7AA==’] Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 161, in exec\_command result = self.\_winrm\_exec(cmd\_parts[0], cmd\_parts[1:], from\_exec=True) File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 122, in \_winrm\_exec self.shell\_id = self.protocol.open\_shell() File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 121, in open\_shell root = ET.fromstring(rs) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 963, in XML parser.feed(text) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1245, in feed self.\_parser.Parse(data, 0) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1188, in \_end return self.\_target.end(self.\_fixname(tag)) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1096, in end self.\_last.tag, tag) AssertionError: end tag mismatch (expected ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒𐁽▒▒n򤃰򥷠▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒羸򩻀򫌀 򥸀󳱰, got ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒𐁽▒▒n▒▒2B▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒⸾) windows7-ansible4 | FAILED =\> failed to exec cmd PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -EncodedCommand KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADAAOAA3ADYANQA5AC4AMgA4AC0ANwA0ADQANAA1ADMANgA1ADQAMQA2ADgANwAyACIAKQAuAEYAdQBsAGwATgBhAG0AZQAgAHwAIABXAHIAaQB0AGUALQBIAG8AcwB0ACAALQBTAGUAcABhAHIAYQB0AG8AcgAgACcAJwA7AA== ---
**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/2 "2015-06-01T14:23:24Z")
Hi, that is a very odd error, as it’s failing to parse XML returned and appears to be connecting to the https port but is using the http protocol (thus the binary output) at the end. Can you share your python winrm version and any other relevant details in regards to how you have your inventory configured? ---
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/3 "2015-06-02T02:07:41Z")
You are right. I did not see that. pywinrm (0.0.3) CentOS release 6.6 ansible-1.9.1-1.el6.noarch Python 2.7.2 group\_vars ansible\_ssh\_user: stew ansible\_ssh\_pass: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ansible\_ssh\_port: 5986 ansible\_connection: winrm ---
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2015, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/4 "2015-06-02T02:23:19Z")
I tried changing the port to 5985. I do notice that it uses http now, but with the same results. [zenoss@zenoss-dev2 ansible-stuff]$ ansible -i inventory windows7-ansible4 -m setup -vvvv ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: stew on PORT 5985 TO windows7-ansible4 WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=[http://windows7-ansible4:5985/wsman](http://windows7-ansible4:5985/wsman) REMOTE\_MODULE setup EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name “ansible-tmp-1433211528.68-218620442194755”).FullName | Write-Host -Separator ‘’; WINRM EXEC ‘PowerShell’ [‘-NoProfile’, ‘-NonInteractive’, ‘-EncodedCommand’, ‘KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADIAMQAxADUAMgA4AC4ANgA4AC0AMgAxADgANgAyADAANAA0ADIAMQA5ADQANwA1ADUAIgApAC4ARgB1AGwAbABOAGEAbQBlACAAfAAgAFcAcgBpAHQAZQAtAEgAbwBzAHQAIAAtAFMAZQBwAGEAcgBhAHQAbwByACAAJwAnADsA’] Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 161, in exec\_command result = self.\_winrm\_exec(cmd\_parts[0], cmd\_parts[1:], from\_exec=True) File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 122, in \_winrm\_exec self.shell\_id = self.protocol.open\_shell() File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 121, in open\_shell root = ET.fromstring(rs) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 963, in XML parser.feed(text) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1245, in feed self.\_parser.Parse(data, 0) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1188, in \_end return self.\_target.end(self.\_fixname(tag)) File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py”, line 1096, in end self.\_last.tag, tag) AssertionError: end tag mismatch (expected ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒𐁽▒▒n▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒羵▒▒ ▒񺻰, got ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒𐁽▒▒n▒▒2B▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒⸾) windows7-ansible4 | FAILED =\> failed to exec cmd PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -EncodedCommand KABOAGUAdwAtAEkAdABlAG0AIAAtAFQAeQBwAGUAIABEAGkAcgBlAGMAdABvAHIAeQAgAC0AUABhAHQAaAAgACQAZQBuAHYAOgB0AGUAbQBwACAALQBOAGEAbQBlACAAIgBhAG4AcwBpAGIAbABlAC0AdABtAHAALQAxADQAMwAzADIAMQAxADUAMgA4AC4ANgA4AC0AMgAxADgANgAyADAANAA0ADIAMQA5ADQANwA1ADUAIgApAC4ARgB1AGwAbABOAGEAbQBlACAAfAAgAFcAcgBpAHQAZQAtAEgAbwBzAHQAIAAtAFMAZQBwAGEAcgBhAHQAbwByACAAJwAnADsA ---
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/5 "2015-06-04T02:56:29Z")
Anything else I can offer that would help here? I just set up Windows Server 2008 R2 and get the same error on that as well. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/6 "2015-06-04T05:56:52Z")
Is your server 2008 r2 machine fully up to date with Windows updates. There is a known bug in wmf 3 - see the blue note box in the windows system prep section of this page in the documentation [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_windows.html#windows-system-prep](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html#windows-system-prep) Hope that helps. Jon ---
**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:** [June 4, 2015, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/7 "2015-06-04T05:59:18Z")
See [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_windows.html#windows-system-prep](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html#windows-system-prep) Your server 2008 r2 machine may need to be patched due to a bug in wmf 3 Jon ---
**Author:** ![Trond\_Hindenes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/96bed5/32.png) [@Trond\_Hindenes](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Trond_Hindenes)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/8 "2015-06-04T20:49:22Z")
Maybe that’s something we should check on in the setup script of the node is a 2008r2 box? ---
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/9 "2015-06-05T03:08:22Z")
The first system I tried was Windows 7 and close to up-to-date. W2K8 R2 was no where near. I’ll bring them both up-to-date and let you know if anything changes (hope Ansible is still around by the time I’m finished). ---
**Author:** ![deloreandave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@deloreandave](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deloreandave)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/windows-tag-mismatch/18362/10 "2015-06-06T18:40:26Z")
Updates didn’t fix it, but I figured it out. I’m attempting to incorporate some ansible calls into zenoss monitoring ultimately and had been making my attempts as the application id, which is configured to use the application’s bundled python. Must have gotten lucky when testing Linux guests, but something must be causing issues with Windows. I might not have even installed some of the dependency’s in the right python instance. Thanks for all your help.