Using Ansible Windows Modules for Common Administrative Tasks

Firewall ports : Ensure that ports 5986 and 5985 are open on the firewall.

Windows common modules

Ping module ansible windows -m win_ping Retrieve network interface information using a specific inventory file ansible -i win_hosts windows -m raw -a "ipconfig" Retrieve network interface information using the default inventory ansible windows -m raw -a "ipconfig" Copy files to a remote Windows host

ansible windows -m win_copy -a 'src=/etc/passwd dest=F:\file\passwd'

ansible windows -m win_copy -a "src=/usr/local/src/PayChannels20.35.zip dest=D:\Tomcat\webapps\PayChannels20.35.zip"

ansible windows -m win_copy -a "src=/usr/local/src/SupplierPay.zip dest=D:\SupplierPay.zip"

Unzip a .zip file on the remote Windows host (source file must exist)

ansible windows -m win_unzip -a "creates=no src=D:\Tomcat\webapps\PayChannels.zip dest=D:\Tomcat\webapps"

Unzip to D: drive

ansible windows -m win_unzip -a "creates=no src=D:\SupplierPay.zip dest=D:"

Restart a service on the remote Windows host

ansible windows -m win_service -a "name=Tomcat state=restarted"

Restart Redis using a .bat command

ansible windows -m win_command -a "chdir=D:\Redis server\start.bat"

Execute commands with win_command module

Start Redis

ansible windows -m win_command -a "chdir=D:\Redis server.bat "

Delete files or directories

ansible windows -m win_file -a "dest=D:\Redis server\log\ state=absent"

ansible windows -m win_file -a "dest=D:\Redis server\logs\ state=absent"

Create a user ansible windows -m win_user -a "name=aa passwd=123456" Create an administrator user named user1 with remote desktop access

ansible windows -m win_user -a "name=user1 password=123 groups='Administrators,Remote Desktop Users'"

First method to reboot the remote host ansible windows -m win_shell -a "shutdown -r -t 1" Second method to reboot the remote host

ansible windows -m win_reboot