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 that requires Python on the remote-node.
• For Windows targets, use the win_ping module instead.
• For Network targets, use the net_ping module instead.

Parameters¶

Notes¶

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, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status¶

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.