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wakeonlan - Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • The wakeonlan module sends magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packets.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
broadcast
 no 255.255.255.255
Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet.
mac
 yes
MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for.
port
 no 7
UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Examples

- name: Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet to 00:00:5E:00:53:66
  wakeonlan:
    mac: '00:00:5E:00:53:66'
    broadcast: 192.0.2.23
  delegate_to: localhost

- wakeonlan:
    mac: 00:00:5E:00:53:66
    port: 9
  delegate_to: localhost

Notes

Note

  • This module sends a magic packet, without knowing whether it worked
  • Only works if the target system was properly configured for Wake-on-LAN (in the BIOS and/or the OS)
  • Some BIOSes have a different (configurable) Wake-on-LAN boot order (i.e. PXE first).

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/wakeonlan_module.html