Running an Ansible role from Satellite, a subset of the target content hosts report: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Data could not be sent to remote host \"host.fqdn\". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh: ", "unreachable": true}

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The affected hosts work just fine and are reachable from Satellite.
  • The affected hosts encounter the error below when running ansible roles from Satellite server against them:

    fatal: [host.fqdn]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Data could not be sent to remote host 
    \"host.fqdn\". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh: ", "unreachable": true}
    14:
    PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
    15:
    host.fqdn  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=1    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0   ignored=0
    16:
    Exit status: 1
    17:
    StandardError: Job execution failed
    

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6.13

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