To overcome this, I wrote a powershell script which will call "Get-SCPFile" cmdlet by Posh-SSH and was able to successfully copy the file from controlling node to windows clients.
Is win_package module going to be with ansible version 1.9.2 and anyone when stable version 1.9.2 is going to be released Thanks On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 6:47:20 PM UTC-4, Trond Hindenes wrote: > > win_package is currently PRed waiting for a friendly +1 to get it merged > into modules-extras. You can find it here in the meantime: > > https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/618 > > > > On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 10:53:19 PM UTC+2, J Hawkesworth wrote: > >> I think you are most likely to be successful if you set up a web server >> on your ansible controller and then use win_get_url to fetch and then run >> the .exe to install (or use win_package as suggested above as I believe >> this will retrieve from http and install). >> >> Bear in mind you will have almost the same amount of traffic if you push >> from your ansible controller to each of your windows hosts as you would if >> you asked each of your clients to fetch from your controller. You would >> still be transferring roughly the same amount of data regardless of whether >> you did this via http, cifs (windows file sharing) or another protocol. >> >> You could even use something like varnish to cache the http response into >> RAM to speed up subsequent requests for the same file, but probably not >> worth it if you are only have a small number of windows hosts to manage. >> >> Jon >> >> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 4:20:08 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> win_copy does not work as the file size is around 300MB. I need to >>> deploy the package on to number of windows clients and install it. Is >>> win_package released module, i couldnt find it. >>> >>> Another way i tried was to use win_get_url to download the package, but >>> it looks like each client calls ftp to download causing overhead. >>> >>> Any ideas, please help, >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 5:51:59 AM UTC-4, Trond Hindenes wrote: >>>> >>>> win_copy is a bad idea. WinRM is simply not built for transferring >>>> binary files. The recommendation is to have the file accessible on a UNC >>>> path/url and then use win_package to get it onto the windows machine. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 4:55:52 AM UTC+2, benno joy wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Did yo try using the win_copy module to copy across the package and >>>>> installing it via win_msi module or your own script to install it issued >>>>> via the script module. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:23 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am trying to write a playbook which will install windows >>>>>> software(exe files) on windows client machine from the control machine >>>>>> (software is on control machine) >>>>>> >>>>>> I want to either copy the software onto Windows machine and then >>>>>> install using ansible or directly install on the windows machine from >>>>>> the >>>>>> control. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please help, i tried to search in google for help but no luck, >>>>>> >>>>>> Much appreciated for help. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/89c6dec4-70a1-42bb-9592-56f5c5727806%40googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/89c6dec4-70a1-42bb-9592-56f5c5727806%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>> . >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/46e8bebc-8a0a-4ae3-8dfd-32e1abc2736c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
