The ad hoc command can be simply executed as shown in the following two examples:
ansible winservers -m win_reboot
ansible win servers -m win_reboot –args="msg='Reboot initiated by remote admin' pre_reboot_delay=5"
The resulting output of either command will look as follows:
This playbook file contains two ways of restarting hosts using the same module:
---
- name: Reboot Windows hosts
hosts: winservers
fast_gathering: false
tasks:
- name: restart Windows hosts with default settings
win_reboot
- name: restart Windows hosts with personalized
settings
win_reboot:
msg: "Reboot initiated by remote admin"
pre_reboot_delay: 5
The resulting playbook output will look as follows:
