I am trying to connect to Windows Server 2012 from my ansible server (Centos7).
Let's assume its host is x and port is y
I managed to connect to other linux based servers but I cannot connect to the windows one.
I followed the tutorial here and after all setups and configurations I get the following error:
root#localhost: ansible# ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass
Vault password:
WindowsServer | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='x', port=y): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', error('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden',)))",
This is my group_vars/windows.yml file:
# it is suggested that these be encrypted with ansible-vault:
# ansible-vault edit group_vars/windows.yml
ansible_user: Administrator
ansible_password: password
ansible_port: y
ansible_connection: winrm
This is my hosts file snippet:
[windows]
WindowsServer ansible_host=x
I did configure windows server with this file.
Please help, I have no idea what to do to make the connection work.
As J and Mike from ansible google group suggested:
The reason of the error were environment variables HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY that ansible used from the system.
To let ansible know that you are using proxy you have to:
1. Locate transport.py that comes with pywinrm
2. modify the following line session.trust_env to make it false.
125 # configure proxies from HTTP/HTTPS_PROXY envvars
126 # session.trust_env = True
127 session.trust_env = False
3. pywinrm will no longer check your local env for a proxy.
After that I also neeeded to add one more variable to group_vars/windows.yml file:
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
Related
is it possible to give me an hint in regards to Ansible and Windows host? I have set up a Ansible server and a Windows host. I am not able to execute win_ping. It seems that I have something messed up with the configuration on the server.
ansible win -m win_ping
Error message:
192.168.178.10 | FAILED! => {
"msg": "the connection plugin 'winrm ## The kind of connection which ansible will make with remote windows node' was not found"
}
Firewall config seems to configured properly. I am able to connect from the Ansible server to the Windows host:
b#b:~$ nc -vz 192.168.178.10 5986
Connection to 192.168.178.10 5986 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
b#b:~$ nc -vz 192.168.178.10 5985
Connection to 192.168.178.10 5985 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
This is the configuration of /etc/ansible/hosts
...
[win]
192.168.178.10
[win:vars]
ansible_user=a
ansible_password="xxxx"
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
ansible_port=5986
...
Ansible uses the pywinrm package to communicate with Windows servers over WinRM. It is not installed by default with the Ansible package, but can be installed by running the following:
pip install "pywinrm>=0.3.0"
If you have installed the packages required and still facing the issue then I would recommend you to go through Ansible guide again.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_winrm.html
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.
Disabling the Windows Firewall (Domain, private and public networks) in the Windows box, fixed the issue for me.
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.
I have configured WinRM at Windows Server 2012 machine using the script suggested by Ansible team: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1
At Ansible control machine (Linux box), the configuration looks like this:
ansible_user: Administrator
ansible_password: PASS
ansible_port: 5985
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_scheme: http
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
Trying to ping Windows machine I still get:
10.2.75.142 | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "plaintext: the specified credentials were rejected by the server",
"unreachable": true
}
User credentials are working credentials of local Windows user, belonging to Administrator group. Am I still missing some config on either side?
I've had similar problem. Through Ansible I was getting:
the specified credentials were rejected by the server
but when executing command from windows machine using winrs it was fine. For example:
winrs -r:https://myserver.com -u:Administrator -p:PASS ipconfig
was going through.
Unfortunately didn't find any solution to have Ansible running with basic authentication. Workaround was to use NTLM authentication. Just added
ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm
to control machine configuration and it works fine ever since.
When I tried to ping my Windows instance using ansible windows -i hosts.ini -m win_ping, I got the following error:
54.197.197.91 | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "plaintext: the specified credentials were rejected by the server",
"unreachable": true
}
My hosts.ini file looks like:
[windows]
54.197.197.91
[windows:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=Administrator
ansible_ssh_pass=MyPassword123!
ansible_ssh_port=5985
ansible_connection=winrm
To solve that, I have done this :
ansible-vault create secret.yml
and entered my password there like this:
win_initial_password: MyPassword123!
Then, my hosts.ini file looked like:
[windows]
54.197.197.91
[windows:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=Administrator
ansible_ssh_pass={{ win_initial_password }}
ansible_ssh_port=5985
ansible_connection=winrm
When I tried pinging, I got the below error :
54.197.197.91 | FAILED! => {
"failed": true,
"msg": "the field 'password' has an invalid value, which appears to include a variable that is undefined. The error was: 'win_initial_password' is undefined"
}
Where am I going wrong?
I solved it by changing these :
ansible_ssh_port=5986
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
This worked.
As I was following an Ansible example similar to the original post, the accepted answer didn't work for me, the following got it working
Note: This is sending password in plain text so don't use in production
On the target machine, run a powershell with admin rights and enter these commands:
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Service\Auth\Basic -Value $true
winrm set winrm/config/service '#{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
Also verify your firewall is configured correctly to allow the necessary ports through (TCP/5985, TCP/5986)
Sources:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_winrm.html#authentication-options
https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/issues/114
Still was an issue for me. My solution was to reinstall python-pip packages related to winrm from scratch. I had to use official Ansible documentation. As per documentation:
apt-get install python-pip git libffi-dev libssl-dev -y
pip install ansible pywinrm
Port number for Windows is 5986 so you var configuration should be ansible_ssh_port: 5986
I came across this same issue even with "AllowUnencrypted" set to true. I observed that win_ping was working for IEUser that was added to Administrator group but failing with
windows-server | UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "plaintext: the specified credentials were rejected by the server",
"unreachable": true
}
for test-user that was not in Administrator group.
So I added the test-user to Administrator group and the issue got resolved.
I've googled a lot and finally the below configuration worked for me. I've added ntlm to my config file.
ansible_user: user#DOMAIN.COM
ansible_password: password
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_ssh_port: 5986
ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
Windows:
I have installed UBUNTU18-LTE in windows and face a lot of issues. So sharing my experience with the same error. Hope this will help.
The user must be local. Guys remember the user(ansible) must be a local(host - 192.168.11.22) admin user else no use of the below process.
Hosts file example.
cat /etc/ansible/hosts
[win]
192.168.11.22
[win:vars]
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_user=ansible # Local admin user of host machine 192.168.11.22
ansible_password=ansible123
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
ansible_winrm_trasport=basic
ansible_port=5985 #HTTP
Run the below command on host PowerShell windows.
winrm configsddl default #Give permission to ansible user
Post step 2 configuration execute below 2 commands on host PowerShell.
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '#{Basic="true"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service '#{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
The Other use-full PowerShell commands to test the winrm connection.
winrm enumerate winrm/config/Listener.
winrm get winrm/config
WinRM quickconfig #Check winrm service is running
winrs -r:http://hostservername:5985/wsman -u:RDPusername -p:RDPpassword ipconfig/all
Every time I try running a playbook to automate some installations in Windows Server, my Windows Remote Host seems to be unreachable.
Here, I am trying to install IIS Server and my playbook looks like this :
---
- hosts : windows
tasks :
- name : Install Microsoft IIS
win_feature :
name : Web-Server
state : present
And the error is :
fatal: [ec2-54-197-197-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com]: UNREACHABLE! => {
"changed": false,
"msg": "ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='ec2-54-197-197-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by ConnectTimeoutError(<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x1b11310>, 'Connection to ec2-54-197-197-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com timed out. (connect timeout=30)'))",
"unreachable": true
}
But, now I came to know that, to run playbooks for Windows, I need to have winrm installed on my control node.
I have done the following :
pip install "pywinrm>=0.1.1"
I have added the public ip of Windows Instance and my hosts file looks like:
[local]
127.0.0.1
[aws]
ec2-54-152-85-197.compute-1.amazonaws.com
[windows]
ec2-54-197-197-91.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Then, I created a directory "group_vars" in /etc/ansible, and in that a file windows.yml which reads :
ansible_user: Administrator
ansible_password: SecretPasswordGoesHere
ansible_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
Please let me know where I am going wrong.
(most likely, because you have not mentioned it)
You need to configure remote commands in PowerShell on your Windows instance (as described in the Windows system prep section). Execute the following (with administrator permissions):
iwr https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex
Before, depending on your settings, you might also need to enable the PowerShell execution policy, set the network interface to private network (mind the InterfaceAlias value below) and enable PowerShell remoting.
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias Ethernet0 -NetworkCategory Private
Enable-PSRemoting