community.windows.win_wakeonlan module – Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 2.3.0).

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.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_wakeonlan.

Synopsis

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

  • For non-Windows targets, use the community.general.wakeonlan module instead.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

broadcast

string

Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Default: "255.255.255.255"

mac

string / required

MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for.

port

integer

UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Default: 7

Notes

Note

  • This module sends a magic packet, without knowing whether it worked. It always report a change.

  • 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.general.wakeonlan

Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet.

Examples

- name: Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet to 00:00:5E:00:53:66
  community.windows.win_wakeonlan:
    mac: 00:00:5E:00:53:66
    broadcast: 192.0.2.23

- name: Send a magic Wake-On-LAN packet on port 9 to 00-00-5E-00-53-66
  community.windows.win_wakeonlan:
    mac: 00-00-5E-00-53-66
    port: 9
  delegate_to: remote_system

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)