[ansible-project] How to do stuff on the remote Windows node from the command node?

Linux Command Node: CentOs 6, Ansible 2.1, Python 2.7.13 Windows Remote Nodes:Windows 7, Powershell 3.0 Encryption: SSL So far I've figured out how to use these tricks in my playbook to do stuff on the remote Windows node from the command node. Are there other methods I've left out?

[ansible-project] How to command remote Windows node from control node

This is a comment not a question. There are many ways to take action on a remote Windows node from the Ansible control node. Use Ansible Modules (especially those starting with "win_"

[ansible-project] Ten Steps To Get Ansible Working With Windows Machines

Hey, Looking back, these are the kind of instructions I wish I had when I set out to use Ansible with SSL encryption to manage my windows machines. I'm glad to see these instructions improve so go ahead and comment or correct as needed. In my case I was using the following versions.

[ansible-project] Ten Steps To Get Ansible Working With Windows Machines

Hey, I may not be the sharpest knife on the tree but looking back, these are the kind of instructions I wish I had when I set out to use Ansible with SSL encryption to manage my windows machines. I'm glad to see these instructions improve so go ahead and comment or correct as needed. In my

[ansible-project] Point ansible to my new version of Python

ansible 2.4.0 python version = 2.7.13 Red Hat 4.4.7-11 Remote node is windows 7. *I just installed python 2.7.13 as shown* here wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tar.xz tar xf

[ansible-project] Re: Server not found in Kerberos Database

I never got Kerberos to work. I ended up using SSL instead. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 5:40:48 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7

[ansible-project] Re: Can I define my inventory in my playbook directory?

Thanks Kai for pointing out my mistake!! On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:02:37 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > >- CentOs 6 >- Ansible 2.1 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3.0 > > > My pl

[ansible-project] Re: Can I define my inventory in my playbook directory?

? On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 10:02:37 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > >- CentOs 6 >- Ansible 2.1 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3.0 > > > My playbooks are all saved in /home/username/playbooks. > &g

[ansible-project] Can I define my inventory in my playbook directory?

Management Node: - CentOs 6 - Ansible 2.1 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3.0 My playbooks are all saved in /home/username/playbooks. My inventory file is saved as /etc/ansible/hosts. And I also use the file etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml I find it a hassle to

[ansible-project] Re: simple true/false statements in playbooks

" register: result - set_fact: tisDatabaseAge={{result.stdout_lines.4|int}} - name: CHECK AGE OF ADS800DICE.S3DB ON SHARE debug: msg="ERROR! ADS800DICE.S3DB HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR {{tisDatabaseAge}} MINUTES." when: (tisDatabaseAge > 60) On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 4:

[ansible-project] simple true/false statements in playbooks

Management Node: - CentOs 7.1 - Ansible 2.1 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3.0 I'm trying to display an error message if the file ADS800Dice.s3db has not been modified for more than an hour. The problem in in the last line. If I leave the quotes around the number

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

catch { Write-Output "An error had occured $Error" } } End { #End } On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3.0 > > How do I launch an executable on a remote node running Windows 7? As I > understand win_scheduled_task only works with Windo

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

; Cannot convert the System.SecuritySecureString value of type System.String to type System.Security.SecureString" On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

Is your role on Ansible Galaxy? I searched for your name but came up with nothing. Do you use another name for your Galaxy contributions or where can I find the role you mentioned? On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > C

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3.0 > > How do I launch an executable on a remote node running Windows 7? As I > understand win_scheduled_task only works with Windo

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

through the Windows login process after rebooting. That would work as well. On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3.0 > > How do I launch an

[ansible-project] Output var values to screen

Control Node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 - pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3 How do I display the values of my vars to the person running my playbook? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3.0 > > How do I launch an executable on a remote node running Windows 7? As I > understand win_scheduled_task only works with Windows Server 2012 and

[ansible-project] Re: launch executable on remote node

Is it possible to launch a web service that would in turn launch a gui executable? On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node: > CentOs 7.1 > Ansible 2.1 > Remote Node: > Windows 7 > Powershell 3.0 > > How do I launc

[ansible-project] Re: winrm and https

Here is a list of 9 items to check. You may already have done all of these but skipping any one of them will prevent it from working. https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email_source=footer#!topic/ansible-project/HKgh7jtsFsk On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 9:32:51 AM UTC-5, František

[ansible-project] Re: HTTP: Disabled while configuring WinRM service

s. On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 2:18:27 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3 > > When I run Trond Hindenes p

[ansible-project] Re: Setting up SSL for Windows Remote Nodes

dmin privileges described in step 4 above. On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 5:29:25 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershel

[ansible-project] Re: HTTP: Disabled while configuring WinRM service

*Thumbprint On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 2:18:27 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3 > > When I run Tro

[ansible-project] Re: HTTP: Disabled while configuring WinRM service

he thumbnail of the cert manually on the command line? If not what next? On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 2:18:27 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >

[ansible-project] HTTP: Disabled while configuring WinRM service

Control Node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 - pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3 When I run Trond Hindenes powershell script for setting up my

[ansible-project] Re: Backup directory on unauthorized remote share

Oh, and I changed "userName" to "domain\userName" On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 5:26:25 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windo

[ansible-project] Re: Backup directory on unauthorized remote share

at 5:26:25 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3 > > I have to make a copy of directory on a share to

[ansible-project] Re: Server not found in Kerberos Database

Yes, they are the same. Is that a problem? I could make a new account local or domain. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 5:40:48 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote

[ansible-project] Re: Unusual WinRM connection issue

Actually I had to type winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}' before it would work for me. On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 9:26:32 AM UTC-5, Mike Fennemore wrote: > > I have a selected few workgroup Windows server 2012 R2 servers that give > the following error: > >

[ansible-project] Server not found in Kerberos Database

Control Node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 - pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3 I'm having trouble connecting to my remote node with kerberos. I have carefully followed all the instructions from the Ansible Docs website

[ansible-project] Re: Trouble connecting to Windows remote node via Kerberos

orrect? On Friday, May 27, 2016 at 11:18:02 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 >- pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3 > > > > I'm

[ansible-project] Trouble connecting to Windows remote node via Kerberos

Control Node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 - pywinrm version from May 19th, 2016 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3 I'm able to connect to my Windows remote node just fine with the powershell setting *winrm/config/server/AllowUnencrypted=true*. But when I change it to

[ansible-project] Re: Raw Command to run a UNC Powershell script

Hi Jon, I checked the examples at your link but they weren't very helpful to me (I don't understand the "/" prefixes to his simple arguments). How would I pass a path (as a string) and an ansible variable as 2 arguments into a powershell script using the "script:" command? In other words,

[ansible-project] Re: Assign the result from a powershell script to ansible playbook variable

Very good point. Thanks for your help!!! On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 1:59:51 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >- CentOS 7 >- Ansible 2.1 > > Remote Node: > >- Windows 7 >- Powershell 3 > > I'm running a powershell sc

[ansible-project] Re: Assign the result from a powershell script to ansible playbook variable

Oh, Thanks, yes that was what I needed. Actually here is what I did in my playbook... script: machineId.ps1 register: result - set_fact: machineId={{result.stdout_lines}} On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 1:59:51 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control Node: > >

[ansible-project] Assign the result from a powershell script to ansible playbook variable

Control Node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 Remote Node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3 I'm running a powershell script (from my playbook) that returns a number via stdout. How do I assign the result (*6999*) to my playbook variable named machineId? Here's my playbook... --- -

[ansible-project] Re: Running powershell script from ansible playbook

Very interesting. The process shows up in task manager for exactly 15 seconds just as it should but the console is nowhere to be found. I'd like to know if anyone knows a way around this. On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 9:57:06 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Control node: > >

[ansible-project] Re: Running powershell script from ansible playbook

Warning.ps1 contains "Invoke-Item C:\Temp\warning.exe" warning.exe is a .dot net console program that just displays a warning message on the screen of the computer for 15 seconds and then closes. On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 9:57:06 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > &

[ansible-project] Running powershell script from ansible playbook

Control node: - CentOS 7 - Ansible 2.1 Remote node: - Windows 7 - Powershell 3.0 I have a powershell script (warning.ps1) on my remote node that runs fine when I double click on it. I also have a copy of the powershell script in my control node playbook directory. As I

[ansible-project] launch executable on remote node

Management Node: CentOs 7.1 Ansible 2.1 Remote Node: Windows 7 Powershell 3.0 How do I launch an executable on a remote node running Windows 7? As I understand win_scheduled_task only works with Windows Server 2012 and win_nssm is only for startup services. Is there any other way do do this?

[ansible-project] Re: win_msi issues with Ansible 2.1

Okay it's working now. I had read about win_package but had never been able to find the product_id until reading your post. Thanks so much. On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 10:06:07 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: > > Management Node running: > Ansible 2.1 > Centos 7 > Remote Node run

[ansible-project] win_msi issues with Ansible 2.1

Management Node running: Ansible 2.1 Centos 7 Remote Node running: Windows 7 Powershell 3 The playbook below appears to run without errors but nothing happens on the remote node. *--- * *- hosts: windows tasks: - name: DiceTis Installer win_msi:

[ansible-project] win_ping Name or service not known

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-project] No config file found; using defaults

Centos 7 Ansible 2.1 Windows 7 on remote node My inventory file (/etc/ansible/hosts) contains [windows] ADS-6999 ansible_host=123.123.123.123 I have configured my windows.yml file as follows ansible_user: Administratoransible_password: SecretPasswordGoesHereansible_port:

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Connection refused

if you have pykerberos installed. You will need to specify the username like us...@full.domain.name javascript: in order to use a domain user. Hope that helps, Jon On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 6:12:49 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: Actually I'm trying to connect to a Windows machine

Re: [ansible-project] ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass in windows.yml

, skinnedknuckles andersonj...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Details: Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Windows 7 (not a server os) Documentation specifies that for remote nodes running windows we add these definitions to /etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml ansible_ssh_user: Administrator

[ansible-project] Re: Connection reset by peer

in the inventory like this [windows] ComputerName:5986 (or 5985 for AllowUnedcrypted=true type this command in powershell PS C:\winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted=true}' done. On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at 2:16:01 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: I've been trying to get win_ping

Re: [ansible-project] Re: Connection refused

connect using a domain user if you have pykerberos installed. You will need to specify the username like us...@full.domain.name javascript: in order to use a domain user. Hope that helps, Jon On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 6:12:49 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: Actually I'm trying to connect

[ansible-project] Re: Problems setting up WinRM

6.3 and I had it working against a win 7 host using a local account. Hope this helps, let us know how you get on. Jon On Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:18:21 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: I've reinstalled everything and am still having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info

Re: [ansible-project] trying win_msi

, such as notepadd++ on Windows, Sublime on Mac. You can also use something like: http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:26 PM, skinnedknuckles andersonj...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Powershell 3 When I run this playbook --- - hosts: windows

[ansible-project] Re: Display variable value from command line?

, skinnedknuckles wrote: I'm suspicious that the variables in my windows.yml file are not being loaded properly. Is there an easy way to display the values of current variables from the command line or do I need to write up a playbook to do this? for example here is my windows.yml file

[ansible-project] using anyconfig-0.0.5 as a module in ansible

Along with updating software remotely I need to update multiple parameter files where sometimes values are to be overwritten and other times original values should be persisted (maintained) if they already exist. I found a python library called anyconfig

[ansible-project] Creating Windows modules

Are modules intended to run on windows remote nodes required to be written in powershell script or is there a way to turn python code into a windows module? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ansible Project group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[ansible-project] trying win_msi

Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Powershell 3 When I run this playbook --- - hosts: windows tasks: - name: test msi installer win_msi: path='C:/Home/ansmgr/documents/wixedit-0.7.5.msi' creates='C:\Program Files (x86)\WixEdit\binaries\WixEdit'

[ansible-project] Re: Using Ansible with remote nodes running Windows 7

There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works. winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted=true}' On Friday, October 24, 2014 1:05:32 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: Has anyone succeeded at running ansible with a remote node running

[ansible-project] Re: Setting Ansible on Fedora

There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works. winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted=true}' On Thursday, October 9, 2014 12:32:33 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: I'm using Fedora 20 and have failed to get Ansible working properly

[ansible-project] Re: win_ping issue

There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works. winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted=true}' On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:51:28 AM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: I'm having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info

[ansible-project] Re: Connection reset by peer

There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works. winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted=true}' On Tuesday, October 14, 2014 2:16:01 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: I've been trying to get win_ping to work for weeks now so I'd be so

[ansible-project] Re: Setting Ansible on Fedora

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. It is working now. 123.123.123.123 | success{ changed: false, ping: pong } On Thursday, October 9, 2014 12:32:33 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: I'm using Fedora 20 and have failed to get Ansible working properly. Here are the commands I

[ansible-project] ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass in windows.yml

Details: Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Windows 7 (not a server os) Documentation http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html#inventoryspecifies that for remote nodes running windows we add these definitions to /etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml ansible_ssh_user: Administrator ansible_ssh_pass:

[ansible-project] Re: ansible_ssh_user and ansible_ssh_pass in windows.yml

So then when I run ansible with the --ask-pass switch and it asks me for SSH password, ansible_ssh_pass is the password they want or is that a different password. On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 4:58:04 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: Details: Ansible 1.8 CentOs 7 Windows 7 (not a server

[ansible-project] Using Ansible with remote nodes running Windows 7

Has anyone succeeded at running ansible with a remote node running Windows 7? I'm having problems getting win-ping to work in this configuration. I've tried Fedora 20 and CentOs7 with Ansible 1.8. My inventory and windows.yml files are good and I've run pip install

[ansible-project] No module named ansible.runner

Centos 7 Ansible 1.8 Python 2.7 there are some redundant entries in my environment path but I don't see how that would cause this problem PATH is

[ansible-project] Re: Problems setting up WinRM

a local account. Hope this helps, let us know how you get on. Jon On Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:18:21 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: I've reinstalled everything and am still having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7

[ansible-project] Re: Problems setting up WinRM

I've reinstalled everything and am still having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7 The WinRM script by Trond runs without errors on the remote node Control and Remote Machines are both on Lan with common domain w/o firewalls

[ansible-project] Re: Problems setting up WinRM

I've reinstalled everything and am still having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7 The WinRM script by Trond runs without errors on the remote node Control and Remote Machines are both on Lan with common domain w/o firewalls

[ansible-project] Setting Ansible on Fedora

I'm using Fedora 20 and have failed to get Ansible working properly. Here are the commands I used to set everything up. Some of these are probably not necessary. Could someone let me know which of these I could leave out or any that are missing? Currently it's not working and I want to

[ansible-project] win_ping issue

I'm having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7 The WinRM script by Trond runs without errors on the remote node Control and Remote Machines are both on Lan with common domain w/o firewalls So far as I can tell I've installed

Re: [ansible-project] win_ping issue

? By default this is where ansible looks, so both should be in the same directory. On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:51 AM, skinnedknuckles andersonj...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I'm having trouble getting win_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7