ohai – Returns inventory data from Ohai

Synopsis

  • Similar to the facter module, this runs the Ohai discovery program (https://docs.chef.io/ohai.html) on the remote host and returns JSON inventory data. Ohai data is a bit more verbose and nested than facter.

Requirements

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

  • ohai

Examples

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

Status

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team
  • Michael DeHaan (@mpdehaan)

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