community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen – Runs ngen to recompile DLLs after .NET updates

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community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen – Runs ngen to recompile DLLs after .NET updates

Note

This plugin is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.2.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen.


Synopsis

Notes

Note

  • There are in fact two scheduled tasks for ngen but they have no triggers so aren’t a problem.
  • There’s no way to test if they’ve been completed.
  • The stdout is quite likely to be several megabytes.


Examples

- name: Run ngen tasks
  community.windows.win_dotnet_ngen:

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

dotnet_ngen64_eqi_exit_code

integer

64-bit ngen executable exists

The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.


dotnet_ngen64_eqi_output

string

64-bit ngen executable exists

The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.


Sample:

sample output

dotnet_ngen64_update_exit_code

integer

64-bit ngen executable exists

The exit code after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command.


dotnet_ngen64_update_output

string

64-bit ngen executable exists

The stdout after running the 64-bit ngen.exe update /force command.


Sample:

sample output

dotnet_ngen_eqi_exit_code

integer

32-bit ngen executable exists

The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.


dotnet_ngen_eqi_output

string

32-bit ngen executable exists

The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe executeQueuedItems command.


Sample:

sample output

dotnet_ngen_update_exit_code

integer

32-bit ngen executable exists

The exit code after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command.


dotnet_ngen_update_output

string

32-bit ngen executable exists

The stdout after running the 32-bit ngen.exe update /force command.


Sample:

sample output




Authors

  • Peter Mounce (@petemounce)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/community/windows/win_dotnet_ngen_module.html