Unreachable : Failed to connect to the host via ssh

[Newbie]

Dear All,

I have created my RHEL 8, AWS EC2 instances and Windows 2019 AWS EC2 instance 

And, have installed Ansible and followed the prerequisites on control node.

Equally I have created user and ran the script <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1> from windows machine.

Also installed Pywinrm on control node and updated inventory file carefully as below:

[winhost:vars]

ansible_user=mahesh

ansible_password=password

ansible_connection=winrm

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

Now when I start ping my windows machine it is returning me an error: - 

UNREACHABLE! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host XX.XX.XX.XX port 22: Connection timed out",

    "unreachable": true

}

Though I mentioned the host vars section is: ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore, it is still checking ssh and kept on faily.




I request can someone suggest in this regards




Thank you very much in advance for your suggestions!

[Dick Visser]

- Is this your entire inventory file? If not please post that

- What is the actual command you used to "ping" the windows machine?

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[Mahesh b]

Thanks for your response!

## Entire Inventory file -

[windows]
XX.XX.XX.XX


[winhost:vars]
ansible_user=mahesh
ansible_password=India@1234
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

## Command used to ping windows servers - 

ansible windows -m win_ping

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[Jordan Borean]

You have defined the vars for the group 'winhost' but have defined the host in the group 'windows'. That's why the connection and other vars are not being applied to the host when running.

[Mahesh b]

Thanks a ton, it's a great clue.

I confirm now my windows server is started responding from Ansible.

Ping = Success.

Thanks again!

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:34 AM Jordan Borean <jbor...@gmail.com> wrote:

You have defined the vars for the group 'winhost' but have defined the host in the group 'windows'. That's why the connection and other vars are not being applied to the host when running.

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