Ansible playbook to check connectivity to windows host and report status - ansible

Question

I am trying to put together a playbook that will connect to hosts and report back if the connection was successful or not. The result of the connection check should be stored in a variable. I had a crack at this by using the ansible facts, however I cannot workout how to handle unsuccessful connections to hosts.
---
- name: Set Facts variables
set_fact:
server_domain: "{{ ansible_domain}}"
server_ip: "{{ ansible_ip_addresses[1] }}"
- name: Set PowerShell parameters
set_fact:
ps_params: '-server_ip "{{ ansible_ip_addresses[1] }}" -server_domain "{{ ansible_domain }}"'
- name: Execute Script
win_shell: "powershell.exe -file \\PSfile.ps1 {{ps_params}}"

Answer 1

Try this:
---
- hosts: all
gather_facts: yes
ignore_errors: true
ignore_unreachable: true
vars:
# email_file The filename to attach to the email
# email_recipient email address to send the email to
# email_subject text to appear in the subject line
email_subject: "Windows Server Connection Report for {{ awx_inventory_name }}"
email_file: ./failed_connect_report.csv
ansible_port: 5985
tasks:
- name: Write header and ensure the email file exists
lineinfile:
path: "{{ email_file }}"
line: 'VM Name,IP Address,Distribution,Port,Note,Port,Note'
state: present
mode: '0774'
create: yes
insertafter: EOF
become: no
delegate_to: localhost
run_once: True
when: email_recipient != ''
- name: Test connectivity to port {{ ansible_port }}
win_ping:
register: result
- name: Did we fail to talk to this host?
block:
- set_fact:
ip_addresses: "unknown"
- set_fact:
distribution: "unknown"
- name: Did we fail to talk to this host?
set_fact:
line1: "{{ inventory_hostname }},{{ ip_addresses }},{{ distribution }},{{ ansible_port }},FAILED - {{ result.msg | replace(',',' ') }}"
delegate_to: localhost
- set_fact:
failed1: "True"
when: ((result.unreachable is defined and
result.unreachable == True) or
(result.failed is defined and
result.failed == True)) and
email_recipient != ''
- name: Log the success
set_fact:
line1: "{{ inventory_hostname }},{{ ansible_facts.ip_addresses.0 }},{{ ansible_facts.distribution }},{{ ansible_port }},SUCCESS"
delegate_to: localhost
when: (failed1 is not defined) and
email_recipient != ''