Ping Host from Ansible Server

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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

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

Antony.

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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

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

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

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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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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.

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this should work
ansible all -m ping

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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.