community.general.wakeonlan module – Send a magic Wake-on-LAN (WoL) broadcast packet

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.wakeonlan.

Synopsis

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

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

broadcast

string

Network broadcast address to use for broadcasting magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Default: "255.255.255.255"

mac

string / required

MAC address to send Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet for.

port

integer

UDP port to use for magic Wake-on-LAN packet.

Default: 7

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

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).

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_wakeonlan

The official documentation on the community.windows.win_wakeonlan module.

Examples

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

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

Authors

  • Dag Wieers (@dagwieers)