Some Usable Adhoc commands

 Some Usable Adhoc commands:

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Creating a file on all remote clients

# ansible all –m file –a “path=/home/vishnu/vishnu1 state=touch mode=700”

Deleting a file on all remote clients

# ansible all –m file –a “path=/home/vishnu/vishnu1 state=absent”

Copying a file to remote clients

# ansible all –m copy –a “src=/tmp/vishnu2 dest=/home/vishnu/vishnu2”

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=appu home=/home/appu shell=/bin/bash state=present”

To add a user to a different group

# ansible all –m user –a “name=appu group=vishnu”

Deleting a user on remote clients

# ansible all –m user –a “name=appu home=/home/appu shell=/bin/bash state=absent”

OR

# ansible all –m shell –a “userdel appu”

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”