Ping Host from Ansible Server

[R.B. Kumar]

Hello All - I am trying to do a ping test of all the hosts in /etc/ansible/hosts, from the Ansible server. 

So the requirement is, the ansible server should do a ping test to all the host and return the output. 

regards,Kumar

[Antony Stone]

I would say https://fping.org/ is the tool you want for this.

Antony.

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[R.B. Kumar]

Thank you for sharing and letting me know about this. 

But for learning purpose i am trying to write a Ansible script, how to achieve this requirement in Ansbile script

All my hosts are Cisco Routers and Switchees

[Dick Visser]

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/ping_module.html

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[Brian Coca]

for network appliances use
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/netcommon/net_ping_module.html
instead


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[Thanh Nguyen Duc]

For windows and linux, i have created a playbook to run everyday at 1am to check whether the host is reachable or not and data will be written to jinja template with html format for the final report.

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> On 16 Jun 2021, at 23:53, Brian Coca <bc...@redhat.com> wrote:
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> for network appliances use

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[R.B. Kumar]

Thanks again. But i am looking for a solution to Ping all the hosts defined in /etc/ansible/host file, from the Ansible server itself.  Ansible Server where i am running the script should do a ping test to all the host i defined in the Inventory file.

will delegate_to: localhost work. I didnt try yet

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/netcommon/net_ping_module.html shows the tests reachability using ping from network device to a remote destination, which i am not looking for.

[Rodrigues -]

this should work

ansible all -m ping 

[Brian Coca]

No, since targets are appliances, they won't have python, the 'ping'
module checks that a) remote is reachable with connection settings
give b) ansible has python + json which are min requirements for
executing anything above raw and script.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 2:49 PM Rodrigues - <bugp...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> this should work
> ansible all -m ping
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