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facter - Runs the discovery program facter on the remote system¶

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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 (on host that executes module)¶

facter

ruby-json

Examples ¶

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

Status ¶

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