Unable to Ping Ansible Hosts in Inventory from Azure Cloudshell

[Carlton Patterson]

Hello Community,

I have created a Centos host in Azure and added the hosts to my Ansible inventory, however whenever I attempt to ping the host with ansible, from Azure Cloud Shell I get the error shown in image.

However, I can connect to the same host with ssh:

I have been trying to get this to work for two days now.

Im running Ansible version 2.4.3

Any guide (I mean any guide) will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Carlton

[raj lovely]

HI Bro,

Let me know if this helps you, because the same was bugging me and i took backup of authorized_keys file and removed  it.

After that, I have ssh-copy-id user@remote_host (copied the ssh keys), then tried to ping which worked for me.

Thanks,

rajesh.

[Carlton Patterson]

Hi Raj,

I'm new to this forum. I can't actually see your answer?

[Carlton Patterson]

Bro,

I tried your suggestion, but I still can't ping with ansible.. Do you have any other suggestions?

On Monday, 7 May 2018 20:40:10 UTC+1, raj lovely wrote:

[f.floimai...@gmail.com]

By default Azure VMs do not answer pings (Microsoft blocks that). So this is not ansible's fault. Use something else to "ping" your VM instead.