ansible-ssh | program invokes ssh with the same arguments

I am having difficulty getting Ansible to perform logging. A simple YAML named demo5.yml spins up AWS EC2 instances (below). The following entry has been added into the ansible.cfg file: log_pth=/var/log/ansible.log

The playbook YAML is executed by calling: ansible-playbook demo5.yml -v

There is nothing in the ansible.log after execution.

What am I doing incorrectly?

Ansible 2.7.9 is not using host_vars

Ive setup a very simple setup with 3 hosts, mainly for testing purposes . I have hosts :

We have a linux ansible server managing software installation on a Windows domain. We have successfully installed software onto all our windows machines without issue. We just added a new Windows 10 computer (yes, we have succesfully connected to other Win10 computers), and when we run our ansible install script we are getting the following error

fatal: [afc54]: UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master\r\ndebug1: Control socket \"/home/ansible/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-afc54-22-ansible\" does not exist\r\ndebug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0\r\ndebug1: Connecting to afc54 [192.168.2.193] port 22.\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug1: connect to address 192.168.2.193 port 22: Connection timed out\r\nssh: connect to host afc54 port 22: Connection timed out\r\n", "unreachable": true

In the [Gathering Facts] section of the playbook, the new machine shows

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/system/setu‌​p.py

while the other windows machines shows

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win‌​_updates.ps1

Why is ansbile trying to connect via SSH rather than the windows port 5986? The same script works successfully on all our other windows computers, but this one has me stumped.

EDIT: If I specify the credentials and specs on the machine's line in the host file (i.e. ansible_user=user@domain ansible_password=password ansible_port=5986 ansible_connection=winrm) then I get the following error

afc54 | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "kerberos: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:579), ssl: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:579)", "unreachable": true }

For over a month I've been running the following command:

I am very new to Ansible and am trying to run my first playbook against a nexus 5600. I am using the cisco-programmable-fabric playbook I have connectivity to the N5K, and can ping it from the Centos7 VM. I can also access the NXAPI sandbox via the browser.

When I run the playbook I the errors shown in the picture. One host gets gets a connection timed out error. The host "mt-l1" has an error with a redirect.

Ansible version is 2.5.1 and python version is 2.7.5.

Errors

NXAPI Config

hosts file

etc/hosts file

Sorry in advance if the question is not clear and/or if i am not askin where i should.

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After trying to do this multiple ways as listed on that question I eventually ran just the ssh-keyscan command using the shell module without the append. I am getting no output from this task:

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