Very first time Network Engineer user - ping module needs to connect with SSH to work?

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Hi All,

First time getting into any kind of automation -starting with Ansible.

Odd results for me. What is going on?

Thanks,
Greg

05:41root@xfrr3 /etc/ansible ? ansible f1 --module-name=ping172.16.0.1 | UNREACHABLE! => {
“changed”: false,
“msg”: “Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Permission denied (publickey,password).\r
\n”,
“unreachable”: true
}
05:41root@xfrr3 /etc/ansible ? ping 172.16.0.1
PING 172.16.0.1 (172.16.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 172.16.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.410 ms
64 bytes from 172.16.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.508 ms
^C
— 172.16.0.1 ping statistics —
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.410/0.459/0.508/0.049 ms
05:41root@xfrr3 /etc/ansible ?

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does the other end have your public keys for the user you are running ansible? or the ssh keys loaded??

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The ping module is not the classical ping command but an Ansible module that will connetc to the remote host via SSH and send back
a "pong" if that succeeds. See the docs.

If you want to use the classical ping command you need to use the "command" or "shell" module to call that from Ansible; but
beware that this task needs to be run on localhost to reflect what you would usually do on the command line.

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If you check the documentation[1] it clearly state the following.

   ping - Try to connect to host, verify a usable python and return pong on success
     - This is NOT ICMP ping, this is just a trivial test module that requires Python on the remote-node.

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oh ignore my comment I missed the networking part.

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Hi,
Welcome to the Ansible Community

We have some Ansible Network getting started documentation which maybe a good place to start https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/network/

Kind regards,
gundalow