community.general.wakeonlan – Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.wakeonlan
.
Parameters¶
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
- community.windows.win_wakeonlan
The official documentation on the community.windows.win_wakeonlan module.