Windows 10: Ansible Connection from Ubuntu to Windows using WinRM

I want to connect through 20 windows machine using my Ubuntu machine controller node In my Ubuntu machine I have ansible installed and I need to connect the above 20 Windows machines I have info like IP, Hostname, Userid, Password using Kerberos Authentication since all the machines are under single domain network. And Basic, Certificate all the other methods are disabled by "GPO". Only using Kerberos.I am able to connect through the 2 Machines because I have explicitly Enabled WinRM.. like "WinRM qc" and then added HTTPS 5986 port But I don't want to go to each and every machine and enabl

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WinRM error "The device is not ready"

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to a windows node (windows server 2022) via WINRM using ansible and I'm getting "The device not ready error". I have researched a lot about this and did not find much promising information about this. Are there any insights that I can get to resolve this?

Sahan.

 

Connecting to Windows server over Winrm with https from Linux System

Hi Team

We have a scenario, where we need to connect to Windows server from a Linux Server ( Jenkins host is linux )
We want the connection to happen over https with WinRM

For which we have following in place:
1. WinRM is configured with http (5985), https (5986) listeners.
2. Https listener is configured with SSL with thumbprint of SSL certificate whose CN is domain name, listener configuration successful.
3. WinRM Service is running.

Connection from Linux server does not work when in my command I specify to use SSL transport for WinRM, its failing over SSL certificate issue.

Currently, I haven't performed any step to add any pem file for target Windows server SSL certificate on client ( Linux server )
Any suggestions/inputs/pointers on following will help.
1. If Linux to Windows connectivity with WinRM over https is possible? The command I am using in that if I ask to disable validation of ssl certs it works over https, but I want to achieve it with SSL certs validation enabled.
2. Which certificate or key should be added on to linux host, how to generate it?

Any response is really appreciated.

Thank you!

Regards,
Akshada

 

Need help to identify the cause for WINRM Service locking up.

Hi all,

I have a problem with the WINRM service on our Windows Server 2019 VM instance. It's stuck in a "stopping" step. We've tried "taskkill /f /pid <could be any ID>" which usual works but not in this case. This service is used by our Server Monitoring tool

I know if we restart the server it will fix it but that is not a solution as we've done this a few times now we need to find a proper resolution.

- Event logs not specific to any error for this issue

- Curious issue along with this is a Trend agent alert also. Basically trend console cannot communicate with the server.

- I believe these are tied into the same issue but what exactly is that.......WINRM service?

- Also went to check Windows updates History and nothing is displaying even used using "PS commend wmic qfe list" nothing

Any help just to identify the underlying cause would help. Any suggestions