# ping: Socket: Operation not permitted Ansible Tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ping-socket-operation-not-permitted-ansible-tower/36475>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** rhel\
**Created:** [March 24, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ping-socket-operation-not-permitted-ansible-tower/36475 "2022-03-24T10:02:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jose\_Angel\_Morena\_Si](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jose\_Angel\_Morena\_Si](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jose_Angel_Morena_Si)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ping-socket-operation-not-permitted-ansible-tower/36475/1 "2022-03-24T10:02:18Z")

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Hello there,

I am working with Ansible Tower 3.8.4, RHEL 8.4 and I can’t run ping via shell command.

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: “ping [google.com](http://google.com) -c 5”, “delta”: “0:00:00.005199”, “end”: “2022-03-24 09:59:23.286631”, “msg”: “non-zero return code”, “rc”: 2, “start”: “2022-03-24 09:59:23.281432”, “stderr”: “ping: socket: Operation not permitted”, “stderr\_lines”: [“ping: socket: Operation not permitted”], “stdout”: “”, “stdout\_lines”: }

ls -lartZ /usr/bin/ping  
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system\_u:object\_r:ping\_exec\_t:s0 67680 Feb 22 2021 /usr/bin/ping

getcap /usr/bin/ping  
/usr/bin/ping = cap\_net\_admin,cap\_net\_raw+p

sysctl -a | grep ping  
net.ipv4.ping\_group\_range = 1 0

Is it possible that I am missing something? Is this intentional for some reason in Ansible Tower?

Thanks in advance,