facter – Runs the discovery program facter on the remote system

Synopsis

• Runs the facter discovery program (https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter) on the remote system, returning JSON data that can be useful for inventory purposes.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• facter

• ruby-json

Examples

# Example command-line invocation
ansible www.example.net -m facter

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Ansible Core Team

• Michael DeHaan

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