Trouble with Windows modules

[anthony pangan]

Hi all,

I'm a complete no0b with Ansible, so sorry if I'm overlooking anything obvious. It seems that arguments I'm sending to Windows modules are not being acknowledged. With win_chocolatey, I'm getting a "missing required arguments: name" error. Similarly this occurs with win_msi, but with the path argument. Running win_ping returns successfully, so I am able to execute remote commands on the client via Ansible.

$ ansible windows -vvvv -i production -m win_chocolatey -a name=atom
Using  as config file
<win_client> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: win_user on PORT 5986 TO win_client
<win_client> EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name "ansible-tmp-1436569974.94-109882179190252").FullName | Write-Host -Separator '';
<win_client> PUT /tmp/tmp0a8PHo TO C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436569974.94-109882179190252\\win_chocolatey
<win_client> EXEC PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436569974.94-109882179190252\\win_chocolatey.ps1"; Remove-Item "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436569974.94-109882179190252\" -Force -Recurse;
win_client | FAILED! => {u'msg': u'missing required argument: name', u'failed': True, u'changed': False, u'invocation': {u'module_name': u'win_chocolatey', u'module_args': {u'name': u'atom'}}}

$ ansible windows -vvv -i production -m win_msi -a path=C:\\Temp\\some_msi.msi
Using  as config file
<win_client> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: win_user on PORT 5986 TO win_client
<win_client> EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name "ansible-tmp-1436570331.32-112559327157120").FullName | Write-Host -Separator '';
<win_client> PUT /tmp/tmpypj083 TO C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570331.32-112559327157120\\win_msi
<win_client> EXEC PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570331.32-112559327157120\\win_msi.ps1"; Remove-Item "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570331.32-112559327157120\" -Force -Recurse;
win_client | FAILED! => {u'msg': u'missing required arguments: path', u'failed': True, u'changed': False, u'invocation': {u'module_name': u'win_msi', u'module_args': {u'path': u'C:\\Temp\\some_msi.msi'}}}

ansible windows -vvv -i production -m win_ping
Using  as config file
<win_client> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: win_user on PORT 5986 TO win_client
<win_client> EXEC (New-Item -Type Directory -Path $env:temp -Name "ansible-tmp-1436570360.66-113839788381177").FullName | Write-Host -Separator '';
<win_client> PUT /tmp/tmp73P19o TO C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570360.66-113839788381177\\win_ping
<win_client> EXEC PowerShell -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570360.66-113839788381177\\win_ping.ps1"; Remove-Item "C:\Users\win_user\AppData\Local\Temp\ansible-tmp-1436570360.66-113839788381177\" -Force -Recurse;
win_client | SUCCESS => {
    "invocation": {
        "module_name": "win_ping",
        "module_args": {}
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

ansible --version

ansible 2.0.0 (devel a9712bb0fb) last updated 2015/07/09 15:18:10 (GMT -700)

  lib/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD 8257053756) last updated 2015/07/09 15:18:15 (GMT -700)

  lib/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 639902ff20) last updated 2015/07/09 15:18:20 (GMT -700)

  v1/ansible/modules/core: (detached HEAD f8d8af17cd) last updated 2015/07/09 15:18:24 (GMT -700)

  v1/ansible/modules/extras: (detached HEAD 495ad450e5) last updated 2015/07/09 15:18:29 (GMT -700)

  configured module search path = None

Controller: CentOS 6.6

Windows Host: Windows 7 SP1

Thanks in advanced!

[J Hawkesworth]

Hi,

Not sure what is going on here, but please can you try putting all the module arguments inside single quotes.

So your command line would end -a 'name=atom state=present'

Hope that helps.

Jon

[Guillaume Querso]

have you tried to downgrade to stable version 1.9.2? i also had troubles with ansible's modules on version 2.0

[anthony pangan]

I ended up downgrading to 1.9.1 via yum and all is well in the world. Thanks all.

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