.TH ANSIBLE.PING 5 "2012-10-02" "0.8" "ANSIBLE MODULES" ." generated from library/ping .SH NAME ping \- Try to connect to host and return pong on success. ." ------ DESCRIPTION .SH DESCRIPTION .PP A trivial test module, this module always returns 'pong' on successful contact. It does not make sense in playbooks, but is useful from \fC/usr/bin/ansible\fR ." ------ OPTIONS ." ." ." ." ." ------ NOTES ." ." ." ------ EXAMPLES .SH EXAMPLES .PP .nf ansible webservers -m ping .fi ." ------- AUTHOR .SH AUTHOR Michael DeHaan .SH SEE ALSO .IR ansible (1), .I http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#ping