"pywintypes.error: (5, 'OpenSCManager', 'Access is denied.')" #43150

[Usha Rani]

Hi Jborean,

I have tried with "win_scheduled_task"option like below..This time its not giving any error ..and its not stopping the services as well. And the windows server i am trying is on 2008R2.

Please tell how exactly i have to use this module to run the python script. 

cat winStop.yml

---

- hosts: "{{ sid }}"

  vars_files:

      - "{{ sid_info }}"

  tasks:

     - name: Host Connection check

       action: win_ping

     - name: Stopping Hyperion Services

       win_scheduled_task:

         name: Stop Task

         #path: D:\smtn17\scripts\

         actions:

         - path: D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py

       register: stop_mt

     - name: Status

       debug: var=stop_mt.stdout

Thanks,

Usha.

[J Hawkesworth]

See the examples here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/win_scheduled_task_module.html#examples - this might clarify things a bit.

`path` needs to be a location for storing the task definition within scheduled tasks.  If you run the scheduled tasks program on windows you can browse through the tree structure to find an appropriate location - its not a file system path 

Also you probably need to set `executable:` to the full path to wherever python is installed on your windows machine and use `arguments` to tell python where the script is i.e. D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py

You might also need to set the user that scheduled tasks runs your python script as.

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Jordan Borean]

If you wanted to go the scheduled task route I would use https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_scheduled_task_module.html#examples instead of the 2.4 link. win_scheduled_task went through a big overhaul in 2.5 deprecating some of the options like path. Anyway there's a reason why I had that as the last option, you are going to have much more luck doing it with become like this

- name: run script with become
  win_command: python.exe D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py
  become: yes
  become_method: yes
  vars:  # the values can be anything, I'm just using the standard connection user/var but you can choose any other
    ansible_become_user: '{{ ansible_user }}'
    ansible_become_pass: '{{ ansible_password }}'

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html#become-and-windows

Scheduled tasks are cumbersome and hard to get right while become is a lot easier to use.

Thanks

Jordan

[Usha Rani]

Hi JBorean,

I have tried the below options:

1. Method:

   become: yes

   YAML:

 - name: Stopping Hyperion Services

       win_command: python.exe D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py

       become: yes

       become_method: yes

       vars:

         ansible_become_user: '{{ ansible_user }}'

         ansible_become_pass: '{{ ansible_password }}'

ERROR:  

fatal: []: FAILED! => {"msg": "Internal Error: this connection module does not support running commands via True"}

2. Method: 

   win_psexec:

   

   YAML:

   - name: Stopping Hyperion Services

       win_psexec:

         command: python.exe D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py

         executable: C:\Temp\PSTools\PsExec.exe

       register: stop_mt

   

ERROR:

{"changed": true, "delta": "0:00:01.297000", "end": "2018-07-26 09:53:00.248778", "psexec_command": "C:\\Temp\\PSTools\\PsExec.exe -accepteula \"python.exe D:\\smtn17\\scripts\\pystop.py\"", "rc": 2, "start": "2018-07-26 09:52:58.951778", "stderr": "The system cannot find the file specified.\r\n\rPsExec could not start python.exe D:\\smtn17\\scripts\\pystop.py:\r\n", "stderr_lines": ["The system cannot find the file specified.", "", "PsExec could not start python.exe D:\\smtn17\\scripts\\pystop.py:"], "stdout": "\r\nPsExec v2.2 - Execute processes remotely\r\nCopyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich\r\nSysinternals - www.sysinternals.com\r\n\r\n", "stdout_lines": ["", "PsExec v2.2 - Execute processes remotely", "Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich", "Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com", ""]}

3. Method:

   win_scheduled_task

   

   YAML:

   - name: Stopping Hyperion Services

     win_scheduled_task:

       name: Stop Task

       actions:

         - path: D:\smtn17\scripts\pystop.py

           arguments: D:\smtn17\scripts\

     register: stop_mt

 

ERROR:

NO ERROR. Executing succesfully. But task not executed. i.e services not stopped.

And i am going to try credssp auth method. Will keep you posted the result.

Thanks,

Usha.

[Jordan Borean]

Sorry the first one should work, just change become_method to `become_method: runas`. That’s my fault.

[Usha Rani]

Hi JBorean,

Thats Worked!!!.. Thanks So much JB..i am struggling from 3 days for this second hop issue. Thanks a lot.