community.general.ohai – Returns inventory data from Ohai

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Examples

Synopsis

• Similar to the community.general.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

Authors

• Ansible Core Team
• Michael DeHaan (@mpdehaan)