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ohai - Returns inventory data from Ohai¶

Synopsis
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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

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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