Ad-hoc Commands

Ad-hoc is the concept of one-time Ansible commands.
You run a command on the inventory and a group, or even on specific hosts, to perform a one-time action.

Why Use Ad-hoc

These commands are useful for:

• quick checks
• one-time actions
• tasks that do not need a full playbook flow yet

Example (From CLI)

ansible OSPFrouters -i inventory.ini -m cisco.ios.ios_banner -a "banner=motd text='test' state=present"

Another quick operational example:

ansible routers -i inventory.ini -m cisco.ios.ios_command -a 'commands=["show clock"]'

Syntax Pattern

ansible <target> -i <inventory_file> -m <module> -a '<module_args>'