community.general.wakeonlan – Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.wakeonlan.

Synopsis

  • The wakeonlan module sends magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packets.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
broadcast
string
Default:
"255.255.255.255"
Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet.
mac
string / required
MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for.
port
integer
Default:
7
UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Notes

Note

  • This module sends a magic packet, without knowing whether it worked
  • Only works if the target system was properly configured for Wake-on-LAN (in the BIOS and/or the OS)
  • Some BIOSes have a different (configurable) Wake-on-LAN boot order (i.e. PXE first).

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_wakeonlan

The official documentation on the community.windows.win_wakeonlan module.

Examples

- name: Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet to 00:00:5E:00:53:66
  community.general.wakeonlan:
    mac: '00:00:5E:00:53:66'
    broadcast: 192.0.2.23
  delegate_to: localhost

- community.general.wakeonlan:
    mac: 00:00:5E:00:53:66
    port: 9
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/wakeonlan_module.html