community.general.ohai module – Returns inventory data from Ohai

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ohai.

Synopsis

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

Authors

  • Ansible Core Team

  • Michael DeHaan (@mpdehaan)