Hi, I am trying to control a windows 2016 server host using Ansible control machine( CentOS)
I followed the steps mentioned in http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_windows.html#id18 But I ran into issues and need help Steps I followed. 1) Setup Ansible Controller machine in CentOS 2) Installed pip install "pywinrm>=0.2.2" 3) Installed pip install pywinrm[credssp] 4) Set up group_vars/windows.yml on my Ansible controller machine with contents as below ansible_user: Administrator ansible_password: *RandomePassword* ansible_port: 5985 ansible_winrm_scheme: http ansible_connection: credssp # The following is necessary for Python 2.7.9+ (or any older Python that has backported SSLContext, eg, Python 2.7.5 on RHEL7) when using default WinRM self-signed certificates: ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore 5) Setup Windows host as per this link http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_windows.html#windows-system-prep 6) I ran command to test connection and I got error as shown below. root@MycentOS # ansible [*windowsIP]* -m ping *windowsIP* | FAILED! => { "failed": true, "msg": "the connection plugin 'credssp' was not found" } Can you please let me know what is going wrong. Thanks, Vishnu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e9ba4dee-0468-4cda-844e-fca0de08ca63%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.