Hi, Jon.
I appreciate the response, and certainly will look into your suggestions.
I'm using version 1.8.4.
As I've continued to hack away, I've got this to work, kind of:
ansible somehost -m win_updates -a category:security
The output looks like this:
somehostb | success >> {
"changed": true,
"updates_already_present": [
"2506014",
"2506212",
"2511455",
"2509553",
"2506928",
~
"updates_category": "critical",
"updates_installed": [],
"updates_installed_afterwards": [
"2506014",
"2506212",
"2511455",
"2509553",
"2506928",
~
"updates_installed_count": 0,
"updates_reboot_needed": true,
"updates_success": "true"
}
The curious thing is that no updates are made, despite the fact that
updates are available on the Win server, and they are of the category
"Security", as in the following:
Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB3002657)
Download size: 1.3 MB
You may need to restart your computer for this update to take effect.
Update type: Important
That comes from the Windows Update Manager. I tried changing
"Category:security" to "Category:important", and still no joy.
Ideas?
On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:27:10 AM UTC-4, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I've got Ansible working on a few Windows 2008 servers. The Ansible
> command server runs CentOS 6. I'm trying to get the module "win_updates"
> working, but am not having much success. I'd like to be able to run this
> both via the command line, and via a playbook. The extant documentation
> isn't very detailed. Here's what I've done/am trying (sorry, this will
> probably be long):
>
> * I had to download the windows module of which win_updates is a part, and
> manually put it in
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/modules/extras/"
> * I installed "PSWindowsUpdate" on the Windows server
> * If I run the command "ansible myhost -m win_updates", I get the
> following output:
>
> myhost | success >> {
> "changed": false,
> "updates_already_present": null,
> "updates_category": "critical",
> "updates_installed": [],
> "updates_installed_afterwards": null,
> "updates_installed_count": 0,
> "updates_reboot_needed": true,
> "updates_success": "true"
> }
>
> Fine, but the updates aren't done. So, I figure I need an argument. The
> win_updates document gives the following example:
>
> # Install updates from security category
> win_updates:
> category: security
>
> I've tried every combination I can think of, as in:
>
> "ansible myhost -m win_updates -a category=security" and "ansible myhost -m
> win_updates -a security" and "ansible myhost -m win_updates -a
> category:security", and I get something like this:
>
> myhost | FAILED >> {
> "failed": true,
> "msg": "\nProcess is terminated due to StackOverflowException.\n",
> "parsed": false
> }
>
> * I created the following playbook:
>
> ---
>
> - name: update windows
> hosts: windows
> gather_facts: true
> tasks:
> - name: win update
> win_updates:
> category: security
>
> It, too, fails, with a much more verbose error message (which I'll skip
> posting, for now). I've tried other combinations in the playbook and, they
> too, fail.
>
> I would greatly appreciate help in getting this to work, both from the
> command line and from a playbook.
>
> Dimitri
>
>
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