On 2016-02-09 20:04, Portia Wong wrote:
> Currently at my workplace, our hosts have multiple connections to different
> gateways. I am trying to find a way to see whether I can easily ping 4-5
> gateways by either running an ad-hoc command or through a playbook to help
> me verify that after each host deployment, connection to those gateways are
> successful. Has anybody ever done this before?
The following req. /bin/ping -- don't forget to limit the ping count.
$ cat ping-list.yml
# Simple ad hoc gateway ping. Prefer proper monitoring.
---
- hosts: all:my_special_remote_host:!not_the_broken_one
tasks:
- name: check gateways after deployment
command: /bin/ping -c3 {{ item }}
with_items:
- 192.168.1.1
- gateway1.example.org
There are more elaborate solutions
In my reading list, not tested (autopinger):
http://jedelman.com/home/network-test-automation-with-ansible/
/Benjamin
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