Connection Refused Error on Local Ollama

[Welborn09]

I am trying to run a test script to ensure Ollama is being utilized and I keep getting a Connection Refused error.
My test script is pretty basic:

from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM

Create a test agent

test_agent = Agent(
    name="TestAgent",
    role="Tester",
    goal="Test Ollama integration",
    backstory="A test agent to verify Ollama is working correctly.",
      llm=LLM(
        model="ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b",
        timeout=5000
    ),
)

Create a test task

test_task = Task(
    description="Verify Ollama integration by generating a simple response.",
    agent=test_agent,
    expected_output="A confirmation that Ollama is working correctly."
)

Create a test crew

test_crew = Crew(
    agents=[test_agent],
    tasks=[test_task],
    verbose=True
)

Run the test

result = test_crew.kickoff()
print("Test result:", result)

I have set my environment variables to:

OPENAI_MODEL_NAME=ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b

 OPENAI_API_BASE=http://localhost:11434

 OPENAI_API_KEY=NA

This is a portion of the error I am getting. Note that I can go to 'http://localhost:11434' and ollama is running

File "/mnt/d/development/CrewAI_Projects/Site-Builder/phataiproject/venv/lib/python3.12/site- 
packages/litellm/litellm_core_utils/exception_mapping_utils.py", line 1794, in exception_type
    raise ServiceUnavailableError(
litellm.exceptions.ServiceUnavailableError: litellm.ServiceUnavailableError: OllamaException: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', 
port=11434): Max retries exceeded with url: /api/generate (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection 
object at 0x7efeb2240260>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

Note: I did have the 'base_url' declared in the LLM() but one post I read while researching this is that it isn't needed, so I removed it.
I have also tried different models just to ensure that wasn't the issue.
I am not sure what else to check. Ollama server is running and I am currently using it for other projects.
I updated crewAi and crewAI-tools to ensure I had the latest.