I’m just learning the Ansible basics in my lab. I have an Ansible VM that can’t ping my virtual router. I have purposely shutdown the router interface for testing. Even though the router is down, the Ansible ping module makes it appear as if it is up. I thought this was designed to quickly check if my hosts were reachable via ssh but I could be wrong. What is this module really doing? Yes I’m new to this so apologies in advance for the basic questions. Thanks!
@ubuntu:~/jw-ansible$ ansible --version
ansible 2.2.1.0
config file = /home/jeremywright/jw-ansible/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = [‘/usr/share/ansible’]
jeremywright@ubuntu:~/jw-ansible$ ping 192.168.7.56
PING 192.168.7.56 (192.168.7.56) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
— 192.168.7.56 ping statistics —
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2010ms
jeremywright@ubuntu:~/jw-ansible$ ansible -i hosts 1000v -m ping
192.168.7.56 | SUCCESS => {
“changed”: false,
“ping”: “pong”
}