win_ping - A windows version of the classic ping module

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
  • Support
  • Author

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.
• For Network targets, use the net_ping module instead.

Parameters

Notes

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, the following are the fields unique to this module:

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.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Chris Church (@cchurch)