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What causes the Ansible "The module ansible.legacy.setup was redirected to ansible.windows.setup, which could not be loaded" error?

I have a simple Ansible playbook executing against a Windows server and I get this error:

The module ansible.legacy.setup was redirected to ansible.windows.setup, which could not be loaded

This is the playbook:

---
- name: Test get values
  hosts: dc
  gather_facts: true
  become: true
  tasks:
  - name: Value of inventory_hostname
    debug: var={{ inventory_hostname }}

  - name: Value of ansible_hostname
    debug: var={{ ansible_hostname }}

  - name: Value of ansible_user
    debug: var={{ ansible_user }}

This is the hosts file:

[dc]
spwawsinfdc01

[dc:vars]
ansible_host=10.11.12.13
ansible_user=username
ansible_port=5986
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_scheme=https
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore
ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=true

I run the playbook with this command:

ansible-playbook -i hosts main.yaml --ask-pass

What is causing this module redirect error?

Solution

  • This module (ansible.windows.setup) is part of the ansible.windows collection (version 2.4.0). It seems that you don't have it installed. To install it, use:

    ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.windows