win_ping - A windows version of the classic ping module

• Synopsis
• Options
• Examples
• Return Values
• Notes
  • Status
  • Maintenance Info

Synopsis

• Checks management connectivity of a windows host.
• This is NOT ICMP ping, this is just a trivial test module.
• For non-Windows targets, use the ping module instead.

Options

Examples

# Test connectivity to a windows host
# ansible winserver -m win_ping

# Example from an Ansible Playbook
- win_ping:

# Induce an exception to see what happens
- win_ping:
    data: crash

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Notes

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance Info

For more information about Red Hat’s this support of this module, please refer to this knowledge base article<https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-top-support-policies>

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