need to test Ping

[Thirumalai Raja A]

hello team,

i need to perform ping command to check the ip address is that is possible in ansible i was tested with blow code i am getting error 

    - name: Ping the IP address

      ansible.builtin.command: "ping -c 4 10.144.35.9"

      register: ping_result

      tags:

        - ping

[Stuart Lowe]

Your formatting is off and your missing a few bits

- name: Ping the IP address

  ansible.builtin.command:

    cmd: ping -c 4 10.144.35.9

  register: ping_result

  tags:

    - ping

should work

 

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[Thirumalai Raja A]

HI, 

   Thank you for correcting me 

i have some other issue related to this i hope you can help me on this,

I am using AWX tower and I created an Execution environment(which installed Packer and Terraform) to run my play book, i particularly use this task to confirm whether my ip is free or not.

 After my correction i am getting below error.

play: 

    - name: Ping the IP address

      ansible.builtin.command:

        cmd: ping -c 4 10.144.35.9

      register: ping_result

      tags:

        - ping

Error: ping: socket: Operation not permitted

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[Stuart Lowe]

Sounds like a permissions issue with the error you’ve got.
Does it work if you elevate the user to root?

add

become: yes

to your play