"msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named xmltodict"

Question

I have ansible version 2.4.2. Trying to integrate Ansible contorl machine (Linux) with Windows. Checked and installed all pre-requesties.

Getting below error while connecting to windows machine

(ansible) -bash-4.2$ ansible *<windowsservername>* -i inventory -m win_ping
*windowsservername* | FAILED! => {
    "msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named xmltodict"
}

PFB the packages

(ansible) -bash-4.2$ pip freeze | grep -i xmltodict
xmltodict==0.11.0

(ansible) -bash-4.2$ pip freeze | grep -i winrm
pywinrm==0.3.0

I am new to ansible, please help on this issue.

Answer 1

It worked for me . I reinstalled winrm on the controller machine using : pip install --ignore-installed pywinrm