#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan # # 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 . DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: ping short_description: Try to connect to host and return pong on success. description: - A trivial test module, this module always returns 'pong' on successful contact. It does not make sense in playbooks, but is useful from C(/usr/bin/ansible) examples: - code: ansible webservers -m ping description: Test 'webservers' status author: Michael DeHaan ''' def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec = dict() ) module.exit_json(ping='pong') # this is magic, see lib/ansible/module_common.py #<> main()