[Ansible connecting to windows] IndexError: tuple index out of range

[Zhenkai Jiang]

Hi,

I am a newbie to ansible 

I have followed every steps on http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html to config an ansible workstation which can operate on Windows.

Below is what I got

[root@ansible-test-1 ~]# ansible windows  -i ~/hosts  -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv

Vault password: 

<15.126.222.251> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: Administrator on PORT 5986 TO 15.126.222.251

<15.126.222.251> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=https://15.126.222.251:5986/wsman

15.126.222.251 | FAILED => Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 566, in _executor

    exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 678, in _executor_internal

    return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 849, in _executor_internal_inner

    conn = self.connector.connect(actual_host, actual_port, actual_user, actual_pass, actual_transport, actual_private_key_file)

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection.py", line 44, in connect

    self.active = conn.connect()

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 132, in connect

    self.protocol = self._winrm_connect()

  File "/root/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 90, in _winrm_connect

    err_msg = str(exc.args[0])

IndexError: tuple index out of range

Any advices?

I am running ansible 1.8( from source)  on Centos 6.3.

target machine is Windows 2008 R2 sp1