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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# (c) 2016, Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+---
+module: wakeonlan
+version_added: 2.2
+short_description: Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet
+description:
+   - The M(wakeonlan) module sends magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packets.
+options:
+  mac:
+    description:
+      - MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for
+    required: true
+    default: null
+  broadcast:
+    description:
+      - Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet
+    required: false
+    default: 255.255.255.255
+  port:
+    description:
+      - UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet
+    required: false
+    default: 7
+author: "Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)"
+todo:
+  - Add arping support to check whether the system is up (before and after)
+  - Enable check-mode support (when we have arping support)
+  - Does not have SecureOn password support
+notes:
+  - This module sends a magic packet, without knowing whether it worked
+  - Only works if the target system was properly configured for Wake-on-LAN (in the BIOS and/or the OS)
+  - Some BIOSes have a different (configurable) Wake-on-LAN boot order (i.e. PXE first) when turned off
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+# Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet to 00:CA:FE:BA:BE:00
+- local_action: wakeonlan mac=00:CA:FE:BA:BE:00 broadcast=192.168.1.255
+
+- wakeonlan: mac=00:CA:FE:BA:BE:00 port=9
+  delegate_to: localhost
+'''
+
+RETURN='''
+# Default return values
+'''
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.pycompat24 import get_exception
+import socket
+import struct
+
+
+def wakeonlan(module, mac, broadcast, port):
+    """ Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet. """
+
+    mac_orig = mac
+
+    # Remove possible seperator from MAC address
+    if len(mac) == 12 + 5:
+        mac = mac.replace(mac[2], '')
+
+    # If we don't end up with 12 hexadecimal characters, fail
+    if len(mac) != 12:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Incorrect MAC address length: %s" % mac_orig)
+
+    # Test if it converts to an integer, otherwise fail
+    try:
+        int(mac, 16)
+    except ValueError:
+        module.fail_json(msg="Incorrect MAC address format: %s" % mac_orig)
+ 
+    # Create payload for magic packet
+    data = ''
+    padding = ''.join(['FFFFFFFFFFFF', mac * 20])
+    for i in range(0, len(padding), 2):
+        data = ''.join([data, struct.pack('B', int(padding[i: i + 2], 16))])
+
+    # Broadcast payload to network
+    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+    sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
+    try:
+        sock.sendto(data, (broadcast, port))
+    except socket.error:
+        e = get_exception()
+        module.fail_json(msg=str(e))
+
+
+def main():
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec = dict(
+            mac = dict(required=True, type='str'),
+            broadcast = dict(required=False, default='255.255.255.255'),
+            port = dict(required=False, type='int', default=7),
+        ),
+    )
+
+    mac = module.params.get('mac')
+    broadcast = module.params.get('broadcast')
+    port = module.params.get('port')
+
+    wakeonlan(module, mac, broadcast, port)
+    module.exit_json(changed=True)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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