Trond,
Thanks so much for your post. Let me start by posting some info: Ansible host: CentOS 6.x Ansible ver.: 1.9.1 Windows servers: 2008 R2 PSWindowsUpdate: previously installed. Oddly, I found that I had to re-register PSWindowsUpdate with Powershell (it's possible I forgot this step when I first installed PSWU, but not probable. Anyway, ...). The first win_updates module I used was the one suggested by a respondent in another post: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fansible%2Fansible-modules-extras%2Fpull%2F854&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFBl08j8HcDvgqXl5hTrtZWWyyh3A. True, this may be for Ansible v. 2.0, and I'm using 1.9, but I thought I'd give it a try. Well, it worked, sort of. The play fired off the appropriate processes on the Windows servers, but the updates to a very long time (using the Windows Update client on the server took a fairly short time to install the updates, and prompt for a reboot). It appears as if they were being installed serially. In addition, the play terminated successfully, but only 21 of the 32 available updates were installed. I had to run my play again for the remainder of the updates to be installed. There was never an indication via the play that a reboot might be necessary, nor via the Windows Update client. I then rolled back to the original win_updates module, and tried again. It, too, worked, and much more quickly. However, about two-thirds of the way through the update, the server rebooted and, of course, the play aborted. A check of the Windows Update client showed that, again, 21 of the 32 updates had been installed. Once again, I had to re-run the play. If the systems hadn't rebooted, I might have considered this a success, as long as all of the updates were applied in one go. In my case, at least, I don't want the servers to automatically reboot after updates have been applied. I have a couple of services, for example, to stop gracefully before the update is done. I don't know if any of what I've mentioned constitutes a bug, or if there's a tweak I can make to the module (I'm no programmer, so I wouldn't know how, anyway). Your continued advice is appreciated. Dimitri On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 12:57:51 PM UTC-4, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > I'm trying to use the extras module win_updates to update my Windows > servers. The play runs without failure, but no updates are applied. > > Ideally, I want the install all available updates (e.g. critical, > important, optional, etc.). I've created a play to look like this: > > --- > > - hosts: windows > gather_facts: true > > tasks: > - name: win update > win_updates: > category: security > > What do I need to do to make this install the updates, and how to I > install all available updates? > > Thanks. > > Dimitri > -- 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/a7167355-c047-42b7-8044-6d5001e1018b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
