reconfigure winrm via ansible?

[J Hawkesworth]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to successfully reconfigure winrm remotely via a playbook?  I need to up some timeouts and increase the MaxMemoryPerShellMB

I know that reconfiguring winrm is one of the things that is specifically disallowed over winrm remoting, but I imagine a scheduled task could do it.  I'm aware you also have to restart winrm, but in my case I could happily wait through a win_reboot.  Reconfiguring it manually via RDP is not really an option - too many servers to change!

Many thanks,

Jon

[J Hawkesworth]

Well it turns out you can.  Here's a hacky playbook to tweak the timeout

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# This playbook is intended to modify winrm parameters
# this is involved because changing winrm properties isn't allowed over winrm
# so the play uses a scheduled task to do it


- hosts: windows-boxes
  gather_facts: true
  tasks:
    - name: display current minute of the hour
      debug:
         var: ansible_date_time.minute


    - name: fail if its near the top of the hour because I am too lazy to handle special case of trying to run in 1 minute after 15:59
      fail: msg="re-run a couple of minutes its not a good time to run a scheduled task"
      when: ansible_date_time.minute|int > 58


    - name: fetch original configuration
      raw: winrm get winrm/config
      register: old_configuration


    - name: show original configuration
      debug:
         var: old_configuration
    - name: set time scheduled fact
      set_fact:
        scheduled_time: "{{ ansible_date_time.hour|string}}:{{ (1 + ansible_date_time.minute|int) |string}}"


    - name: schedule the config change
      win_scheduled_task: name="Configure winrm timeouts 1" execute="winrm" frequency="daily" time="{{ scheduled_time }}" description="fix up winrm timeouts 1" enable=yes state=present user=SYSTEM argument='set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms = "36000000"}'


    - name: wait for 2 minutes for the scheduled task to run
      pause: minutes=2


    - name: reboot the box to pick up new configuration
      win_reboot:


    - name: disable and remove the scheduled task
      win_scheduled_task: name="Configure winrm timeouts 1" execute="winrm" frequency="daily" time="{{ scheduled_time }}" description="fix up winrm timeouts 1" enable=no state=absent user=SYSTEM argument='set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms = "36000000"}'

    - name: fetch updated configuration
      raw: winrm get winrm/config
      register: new_configuration


    - name: show updated configuration
      debug:
         var: new_configuration