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ohai - Returns inventory data from Ohai

Synopsis

Similar to the facter module, this runs the Ohai discovery program (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Ohai) on the remote host and returns JSON inventory data. Ohai data is a bit more verbose and nested than facter.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • ohai

Examples

# Retrieve (ohai) data from all Web servers and store in one-file per host
ansible webservers -m ohai --tree=/tmp/ohaidata

This is an Extras Module

For more information on what this means please read Extras Modules

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© 2012–2016 Michael DeHaan
© 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ohai_module.html