win_ping Name or service not known

[skinnedknuckles]

Centos 7

Ansible 2.1

Windows 7 on remote node

My inventory file (/etc/ansible/hosts) contains...
[windows]
123.123.123.123.mycompany.com

My /etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml file contains...

ansible_user: username
ansible_password: password
ansible_port: 5985
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

 But when I try to run win_ping I get this:

$ansible windows -m win_ping -c winrm --vvv

No config file found; using defaults

<123.123.123.123.mycompany.com> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: username on port 5985 TO 123.123.123.123.mycompany.com

123.123.123.123.mycompany.com | FAILED! => {

    "failed": true.

    "msg": "plaintext: 500 WinRMTransport. [Errno -2] Name or service not known"

}

What config file am I missing?

Where should it be located?

What should it contain?

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Jonathan

[J Hawkesworth]

Hi,

Could be a few things going on here but 'Name or service not known' can mean that it can't find the host.

Can you ping 123.123.123.123.mycompany.com from your ansible controller? Also if you do an nslookup on its ip address, do you get the correct hostname back?

Did you run the https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 script on the Windows 7 machine.

Also, if I recall, Windows 7 came with Powershell 2.0.  You'll need to upgrade it to at least Powershell / Windows Management Framework 3.0 (although I would go straight to 4.0 if possible).

Hope this helps,

Jon