Not all Ansible modules work with Windows hosts and ping is one of them. There is a module provided for Windows called win_ping and we will be using that here.

The command we need to run follows; as you can see, other than the module name it is exactly the way we executed it against a Linux host:

$ ansible windows -i production -m win_ping

If you are a macOS user and you receive an error like this one, then don't worry; there is a workaround for it:

The error is a known issue that is being worked on by the Ansible team. In the meantime, run the following command, or add it to your ~/.bash_profile file:

$ export OBJC_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=YES

Once you have run the command, you should see the following results:

The next module we are going to run has been designed to work with Windows or Linux hosts.