what's the syntac in ansible playbook to ping a remote host

[YuLing Chen]

Hi All,

I'm looking for the syntax to ping a remote host in ansible playbook. I created something as follows, but it seems the syntax is wrong.

 - name: assign floating ip
    quantum_floating_ip:
         login_username: '{{login_username}}'
         login_password: '{{login_password}}'
         login_tenant_name: '{{project_name}}'
         instance_name: '{{instance_name}}'
         network_name: ext_net
         internal_network_name: mgmt_network
    register: v_floating_ip

  - name: validate connectivity to the controller
    action: ping
        ip_address: '{{v_floating_ip.public_ip}}'

I got the floating ip from the previous step successfully. Now I just would like to ping the floating ip to make sure it's accessible. Any idea how I would be able to do?

Thanks,

YuLing

[Michael DeHaan]

All you would need to do is just

- action: ping

The ping module will get called for the current host in the host loop automatically.

There isn't a way to specify an ICMP ping though, that's just a SSH connectivity test to the current host alias, as looked up by hostname.

What you may have to do is use the "add_host" module to create a temporary host for the given floating IP, if you want to test it is accessible.

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