Quick Ansible One-liners

Had to check a good bunch of servers this weekend after some testing.  I gathered a list of the hostnames, placed them into the hosts file, then with the below I could see them all up.

ansible serverlist -m ping

Then I could see who was up and responded to a ping, then this next one liner would check they were all up and I could connect to them

ansible serverlist -m shell -a "hostname;date"

Very easy and simple, hope this helps you out

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