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 ...
