{
  "description": [
    "A trivial test module, this module always returns 'pong' on successful contact. It does not make sense in playbooks, but is useful from C(/usr/bin/ansible)"
  ], 
  "author": "Michael DeHaan", 
  "module": "ping", 
  "filename": "library/ping", 
  "examples": [
    {
      "code": "ansible webservers -m ping", 
      "description": "Test 'webservers' status"
    }
  ], 
  "docuri": "ping", 
  "short_description": "Try to connect to host and return pong on success.", 
  "now_date": "2012-10-09", 
  "ansible_version": "0.8"
}