Ansible for Windows

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I am trying to set up my ansible host to connect to windows. However ping is failing with the following error:

sudo ansible win -m win_ping hostname | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "basic: HTTPConnectionPool(host='hostname', port=5986): Read timed out. (read timeout=30)", "unreachable": true }

pywinrm is installed on my linux box and WinRM is installed on the windows box.

Hosts file:

[win]
systemname
[win:vars]
ansible_user=username
ansible_password=passord
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_scheme=http
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
ansible_winrm_transport=basic

Appreciate any advice. Thanks.

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windowsansible
Can you ping it normally? Does the firewall allow winrm? – dan1st
yes ping is successful from linux to windows. – James Rubin
and the firewall rules has "Allow WinRM HTTPS" for port 5986 – James Rubin
Is winrm listening on 0.0.0.0? (You can test it with netstat -an) – dan1st
TCP 0.0.0.0:5985 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING TCP 0.0.0.0:5986 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING – James Rubin

2 Answers

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Disabling the Windows Firewall (Domain, private and public networks) in the Windows box, fixed the issue for me.

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Can you double check the WinRM Listener settings: 

winrm enumerate winrm/config/Listener

If the output is what you expect, can you test a command on the local server as shown here: 

winrs -r:http://server:5985/wsman -u:Username -p:Password ipconfig

Ansible has a good reference on this topic as well.