Ad-hoc commands

Ping localhost
# ansible localhost –m ping

Creating a file on all remote clients
# ansible all –m file –a “path=/home/iafzal/adhoc1 state=touch mode=700”

Deleting a file on all remote clients
# ansible all –m file –a “path=/home/iafzal/adhoc1 state=absent”

Copying a file to remote clients
# ansible all –m copy –a “src=/tmp/adhoc2 dest=/home/iafzal/adhoc2”

Installing package (telnet and httpd-manual)
# ansible all –m yum –a “name=telnet state=present”
# ansible all –m yum –a “name=httpd-manual state=present”. 

Starting httpd package service
# ansible all –m service –a “name=httpd state=started”

Start httpd and enable at boot time
# ansible all –m service –a “name=httpd state=started enabled=yes”

Checking httpd service status on remote client
# ansible all –m shell -a “systemctl status httpd”

Remove httpd package
# ansible all –m yum –a “name=httpd state=absent”
OR
# ansible all –m shell -a “yum remove httpd”.

Creating a user on remote clients
# ansible all –m user –a “name=jsmith home=/home/jsmith shell=/bin/bash state=present”

To add a user to a different group
# ansible all –m user –a “name=jsmith group=iafzal”

Deleting a user on remote clients
# ansible all –m user –a “name=jsmith home=/home/jsmith shell=/bin/bash state=absent”
OR
# ansible all –m shell –a “userdel jsmith”

Getting system information from remote clients
# ansible all –m setup

You can run commands on the remote host without a shell module e.g. reboot client1
# ansible client1 –a “/sbin/reboot”