win_reboot – Reboot a windows machine

New in version 2.1.

Synopsis

• Reboot a Windows machine, wait for it to go down, come back up, and respond to commands.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
connect_timeout integer	Default: 5	Maximum seconds to wait for a single successful TCP connection to the WinRM endpoint before trying again aliases: connect_timeout_sec
msg -	Default: "Reboot initiated by Ansible"	Message to display to users
post_reboot_delay integer added in 2.4	Default: 0	Seconds to wait after the reboot command was successful before attempting to validate the system rebooted successfully. This is useful if you want wait for something to settle despite your connection already working. aliases: post_reboot_delay_sec
pre_reboot_delay integer	Default: 2	Seconds to wait before reboot. Passed as a parameter to the reboot command. aliases: pre_reboot_delay_sec
reboot_timeout integer	Default: 600	Maximum seconds to wait for machine to re-appear on the network and respond to a test command. This timeout is evaluated separately for both reboot verification and test command success so maximum clock time is actually twice this value. aliases: reboot_timeout_sec
shutdown_timeout integer	Default: 600	Maximum seconds to wait for shutdown to occur Increase this timeout for very slow hardware, large update applications, etc This option has been removed since Ansible 2.5 as the win_reboot behavior has changed aliases: shutdown_timeout_sec
test_command -	Default: "whoami"	Command to expect success for to determine the machine is ready for management

Notes

Note

• If a shutdown was already scheduled on the system, win_reboot will abort the scheduled shutdown and enforce its own shutdown.
• For non-Windows targets, use the reboot module instead.
• The connection user must have the SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege privilege enabled, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/force-shutdown-from-a-remote-system for more information.

Examples

# Unconditionally reboot the machine with all defaults
- win_reboot:

# Apply updates and reboot if necessary
- win_updates:
  register: update_result
- win_reboot:
  when: update_result.reboot_required

# Reboot a slow machine that might have lots of updates to apply
- win_reboot:
    reboot_timeout: 3600

Return Values

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

Key	Returned	Description
elapsed integer	always	The number of seconds that elapsed waiting for the system to be rebooted. Sample: 23
rebooted boolean	always	true if the machine was rebooted Sample: True

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Matt Davis (@nitzmahone)

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