ping - Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success¶

Synopsis¶

• A trivial test module, this module always returns pong on successful contact. It does not make sense in playbooks, but it is useful from /usr/bin/ansible to verify the ability to login and that a usable python is configured.
• This is NOT ICMP ping, this is just a trivial test module.
• For Windows targets, use the win_ping module instead.

Options¶

Examples¶

# Test we can logon to 'webservers' and execute python with json lib.
# ansible webservers -m ping

# Example from an Ansible Playbook
- ping:

# Induce an exception to see what happens
- ping:
    data: crash

Return Values¶

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

Notes¶