I am running into a similar situation and have been thinking about using
the shell: ping approach too. But what I came up in the following didn't
seem to do the trick. Would appreciate a hint:
---
- name: ping a remote host many times
local_action: shell ping -v {{ inventory_hostname }}
register: result
until: result.stdout.rc == '0'
retries: 5
delay: 5
I can also confirm that the typical approach using wait_for as published,
e.g. by ansible support
<https://support.ansible.com/hc/en-us/articles/201958037-Reboot-a-server-and-wait-for-it-to-come-back>,
works only with one-hop, anytime ssh jump-host (more than one hop) is used,
the approach fails.
--Zack
On Friday, January 17, 2014 1:47:43 PM UTC-8, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> Yeah, I'm open to the idea of a ping module action_plugin that takes a
> 'mode=icmp' (default ssh).
>
> You could also just do a "shell: ping" (making sure to ping just once) and
> register the return code.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Anand Buddhdev <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 17 January 2014 21:38:41 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>> You could consider running Ansible from the bastion host, versus using an
>>> SSH jumphost which I infer you are using above.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, by bastion, I meant an SSH jump host.
>>
>>
>>> The ping module doesn't ICMP ping, BTW, it's a basic Ansible
>>> connectivity test.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I realise that the ansible ping module is not ICMP, but an SSH
>> connection. The SSH jump host doesn't have ansible installed, and I don't
>> have root access on it. I can of course install ansible in a virtualenv,
>> but I was hoping for some cleverer way of detecting host down/up from
>> within a playbook run from my laptop. I suppose my use-case is an outlier,
>> so I'll try to see what I can do on the jump host.
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