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

Synopsis

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

Parameters

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

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

The official documentation on the win_wakeonlan module.

Examples

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

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

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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