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

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• The win_wakeonlan module sends magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packets.
• For non-Windows targets, use the wakeonlan module instead.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
broadcast string	Default: "255.255.255.255"	Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet.
mac string / required		MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for.
port integer	Default: 7	UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Notes

Note

• This module sends a magic packet, without knowing whether it worked. It always report a change.
• 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).

See Also

See also

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

The official documentation on the wakeonlan module.

Examples

- name: Send a magic Wake-on-LAN packet to 00:00:5E:00:53:66
  win_wakeonlan:
    mac: 00:00:5E:00:53:66
    broadcast: 192.0.2.23

- name: Send a magic Wake-On-LAN packet on port 9 to 00-00-5E-00-53-66
  win_wakeonlan:
    mac: 00-00-5E-00-53-66
    port: 9
  delegate_to: remote_system

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)

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