Time Sync Windows machine using ansible

 Hello Guys,

I know you have been waiting for a automation which can help to sync the time of windows server/Desktop to local NTP server using ansible

    In the previous blog i have shared a playbook how you can use it to setup a NTP server on rhel or centos box in this will be using a playbook to connect with windows client to sync them with local ntp server.

so here is the playbook 

---

- name: Configure NTP server on Windows and synchronize time

hosts: all

#become: yes

force_handlers: True

gather_facts: false

tasks:

# - name: Install NTP service

# win_feature:

# name: NTP

# state: present

##This step is not necessary but added for asthetics so ip is not shown but fqdn looks more appling

- name: Configure NTP server on windows host

ansible.builtin.copy:

dest: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

content: |

{{ ntp_server }} rhel.ntpserver.local

# notify:

# - restart ntpd

- name: Synchronize time with NTP server

ansible.windows.win_powershell:

script: |

w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"rhel.ntpserver.local" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:YES

w32tm /resync

notify:

- restart w32time

ignore_errors: true

handlers:

# - name: restart ntpd

# win_service:

# name: ntpd

# state: restarted

- name: restart w32time

win_service:

name: w32time

state: restarted

to run the ansible playbook 

ansible-playbook -i inventory_file ntp_client.yml -e ntp_server = "ip address of ntpserver"

Enjoy and let me know what automation you want to work on...