unable to ping windows machine using ansible

[Sameer Modak]

Below is the configuration and its corresponding error,

[windows]
192.168.1.102
[windows:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=smodak
ansible_ssh_pass=******
ansible_ssh_port=5986
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

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[root@hackerdev ansible]# ansible -vvv windows -m win_ping 

Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

META: ran handlers

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_ping.ps1

<192.168.1.102> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: smodak on PORT 5986 TO 192.168.1.102

192.168.1.102 | UNREACHABLE! => {

    "changed": false, 

    "msg": "ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='192.168.1.102', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x3623650>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))", 

    "unreachable": true

}

What is going wrong ?????

is it something missing on windows machine??????/

[Jeremie Levy]

Your config should look like this:

ansible_user: username

#password goes here when you don't want to use -k option.

ansible_password: password

ansible_port: 5986

ansible_connection: winrm

ansible_winrm_transport: kerberos

ansible_winrm_scheme: https

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation: true

And you need to run the script https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 First 

[Tony Chia]

What happends when you run "telnet 192.168.1.102" on the ansible controller box?

On the windows box, did you run the script ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 which you can obtain from here

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1