Ad hoc versus playbook: the win_reboot module

The ad hoc command can be simply executed as shown in the following two examples:

ansible winservers -m win_reboot

ansible win servers -m win_reboot –args="msg='Reboot initiated by remote admin' pre_reboot_delay=5"

The resulting output of either command will look as follows:

This playbook file contains two ways of restarting hosts using the same module:

---
- name: Reboot Windows hosts
  hosts: winservers
  fast_gathering: false
  tasks:
    - name: restart Windows hosts with default settings
      win_reboot
 
    - name: restart Windows hosts with personalized 
      settings
      win_reboot:
        msg: "Reboot initiated by remote admin"
        pre_reboot_delay: 5

The resulting playbook output will look as follows: