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- How does Ansible Ping module work?
- How do I test Ansible Ping?
- How do I run Ansible module?
- How do I ping Ansible host?
- What is command module in Ansible?
- How do I SSH in Ansible?
- How do I ping from Ansible Windows?
- How do I ping Ansible inventory?
- How do I connect to Ansible host?
- How do I run Ansible commands?
- Where are Ansible modules saved?
- Where do I put Ansible modules?
How does Ansible Ping module work?
How does Ansible Ping works?
- After successful verifying the ability to login and availability of usable python on remote hosts. ...
- This do not work on ICMP, but work by default on SSH or any other defined connection method.
- One acceptable parameter is data which accepts values as either pong, crash or some other string.
- Default is pong.
How do I test Ansible Ping?
To test that Ansible is able to connect and run commands and playbooks on your nodes, you can use the following command: ansible all -m ping.
How do I run Ansible module?
Run Your First Command and Playbook
- Prerequisites.
- Install Ansible.
- Establish a manual connection to a managed node.
- Run your first network Ansible command.
- Create and run your first network Ansible Playbook.
- Gathering facts from network devices.
How do I ping Ansible host?
As soon as you have this, you can use this as your host: ansible 127.0. 0.1 -m ping . To tell Ansible about the new hosts file, add -i ansible/hosts.
What is command module in Ansible?
Ansible Command module is used to execute commands on a remote node. The Command module, is used mostly to run simple Linux commands on a remote node/server which is part of a host group or Stand alone server mentioned in the host group.
How do I SSH in Ansible?
Setting up SSH keys
By default, Ansible assumes you are using SSH keys to connect to remote machines. SSH keys are encouraged, but you can use password authentication if needed with the --ask-pass option. If you need to provide a password for privilege escalation (sudo, pbrun, and so on), use --ask-become-pass .
How do I ping from Ansible Windows?
Create a new file named ansible.cfg and use the following as it's content:
- [defaults] inventory = /home/mbalotia/AnsiblePrac/winservers/hosts.
- mbalotia@mbalotia-controller:~/AnsiblePrac/winservers$ ansible-galaxy init ping. ...
- --- # This uses the win_ping module to test connectivity to Windows hosts. ...
- --- - hosts: all.
How do I ping Ansible inventory?
The ansible executable has a requirement of a "host pattern" which will match a group of remote nodes defined in the inventory. We could target just the web nodes by using ansible web -i /path/to/inventory. ini -m ping to get Ansible to use the ping module against the web-1.example.org and web-2.example.org.
How do I connect to Ansible host?
In order to connect to your Windows hosts properly, you need to make sure that you put in ansible_connection=winrm in the host vars section of your inventory file so that Ansible Engine doesn't just keep trying to connect to your Windows host via SSH.
How do I run Ansible commands?
The command module takes the command name followed by a list of space-delimited arguments. The given command will be executed on all selected nodes. The command(s) will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOSTNAME and operations like "*" , "<" , ">" , "|" , ";" and "&" will not work. Use the ansible.
Where are Ansible modules saved?
The Ansible inventory file defines the hosts and groups of hosts upon which commands, modules, and tasks in a playbook operate. The file can be in one of many formats depending on your Ansible environment and plugins. The default location for the inventory file is /etc/ansible/hosts .
Where do I put Ansible modules?
To load your local modules automatically and make them available to all playbooks and roles, add them in any of these locations:
- any directory added to the ANSIBLE_LIBRARY environment variable ( $ANSIBLE_LIBRARY takes a colon-separated list like $PATH )
- ~/. ansible/plugins/modules/
- /usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules/
