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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Ansible Quick Start Guide

by Mohamed Alibi
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Use case 2 – automated Windows optimization

This module is kind of a cleanup and organization of the system. It is primarily aimed at desktop Windows hosts, but some tasks can be used for servers.

This playbook will start by showing how to remote startup a Windows host that has been shut down. We then wait until it has properly powered on to do a disk defragmentation. After that, we perform some registry optimization tasks and finish by joining the host to a domain:

---- name: Windows system configuration and optimisation  hosts: windows  gather_facts: yes  vars:     macaddress: "{{      (ansible_interfaces|first).macaddress|default     (mac|default('')) }}"      tasks:   - name: Send magic Wake-On-Lan packet to turn on         individual systems     win_wakeonlan: mac: ...
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ISBN: 9781789532937