wait_for_connection - Waits until remote system is reachable/usable

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

• Waits for a total of timeout seconds.
• Retries the transport connection after a timeout of connect_timeout.
• Tests the transport connection every sleep seconds.
• This module makes use of internal ansible transport (and configuration) and the ping/win_ping module to guarantee correct end-to-end functioning.
• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
connect_timeout	Default: 5	Maximum number of seconds to wait for a connection to happen before closing and retrying.
delay	Default: 0	Number of seconds to wait before starting to poll.
sleep	Default: 1	Number of seconds to sleep between checks.
timeout	Default: 600	Maximum number of seconds to wait for.

Notes

Note

• This module is also supported for Windows targets.

Examples

- name: Wait 600 seconds for target connection to become reachable/usable
  wait_for_connection:

- name: Wait 300 seconds, but only start checking after 60 seconds
  wait_for_connection:
    delay: 60
    timeout: 300

# Wake desktops, wait for them to become ready and continue playbook
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Send magic Wake-On-Lan packet to turn on individual systems
    wakeonlan:
      mac: '{{ mac }}'
      broadcast: 192.168.0.255
    delegate_to: localhost

  - name: Wait for system to become reachable
    wait_for_connection:

  - name: Gather facts for first time
    setup:

# Build a new VM, wait for it to become ready and continue playbook
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: Clone new VM, if missing
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_ipaddress }}'
      name: '{{ inventory_hostname_short }}'
      template: Windows 2012R2
      customization:
        hostname: '{{ vm_shortname }}'
        runonce:
        - powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -File C:\Windows\Temp\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 -ForceNewSSLCert -EnableCredSSP
    delegate_to: localhost

  - name: Wait for system to become reachable over WinRM
    wait_for_connection:
      timeout: 900

  - name: Gather facts for first time
    setup:

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
elapsed int	always	The number of seconds that elapsed waiting for the connection to appear. Sample: 23

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as core which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Core Team, see here.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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