Security Automation with Ansible 2

Running Ansible against a Windows server

Now, let's test by executing a simple ping module against the Windows server.

First, we need to create the inventory file, which includes the options for connecting the Windows winrm service:

[windows]192.168.56.120 ansible_user=Administrator ansible_password=strongpassowrd ansible_connection=winrm ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore ansible_port=5986

To execute the Windows ping module, we can run the following Ansible command:

ansible -i inventory windows -m win_ping

To learn more about the different available modules in Windows, refer to http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/list_of_windows_modules.html ...