"msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named winrm"

[shubham jain]

Hi All,

i am facing some issue while trying to connect to windows.

please help.

ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping

xxxxx | FAILED! => {

    "msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named winrm"

}

i can see winrm is installed.

output of pip list:

Package                      Version

---------------------------- -----------

ansible-tower-cli            3.3.4

asn1crypto                   0.24.0

backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.7.0.1

bcrypt                       3.1.6

cached-property              1.5.1

certifi                      2019.9.11

cffi                         1.12.3

chardet                      3.0.4

Click                        7.0

colorama                     0.4.1

cryptography                 2.7

docker                       3.7.3

docker-compose               1.24.1

docker-pycreds               0.4.0

dockerpty                    0.4.1

docopt                       0.6.2

enum34                       1.1.6

functools32                  3.2.3.post2

idna                         2.7

ipaddress                    1.0.22

jsonschema                   2.6.0

ntlm-auth                    1.4.0

paramiko                     2.4.2

pip                          19.2.3

pyasn1                       0.4.5

pycparser                    2.19

PyNaCl                       1.3.0

pyOpenSSL                    19.0.0

pywinrm                      0.3.0

PyYAML                       3.13

requests                     2.20.1

requests-ntlm                1.1.0

setuptools                   0.9.8

six                          1.12.0

texttable                    0.9.1

urllib3                      1.24.3

websocket-client             0.56.0

xmltodict                    0.12.0

Python 2.7.13 (default, May 23 2018, 14:21:55)

[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import winrm

>>> import requests

>>>

>>>

>>> exit()

 ansible --version

ansible 2.7.12

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = [u'/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible

  executable location = /bin/ansible

  python version = 2.7.13 (default, May 23 2018, 14:21:55) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-11)]

[Jordan Borean]

It could be that the Python Ansible is using is not the same as the python in the main path. You can check all this by running;

# Check what Python comes first in the PATH and what Python pip is using
which python
pip --version

# Check what Python Ansible is configured to run as
head -n 1 $(which ansible)

If the shebang in ansible is '#!/usr/bin/env python' then it should be using the Python in the main path but if it's another value and not what 'which python' returns then you need to make sure that either;

• You install pywinrm to that Python environment, or
• You install ansible to the Python environment that has pywinrm and other packages installed to
  

Thanks

Jordan