community.general.facter - Runs the discovery program facter on the remote system
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 1.3.2).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.facter.
Synopsis
- Runs the facter discovery program (//github.com/puppetlabs/facter) on the remote system, returning JSON data that can be useful for inventory purposes.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- facter
- ruby-json
Parameters
Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments list / elements=string
Specifies arguments for facter.
Examples
# Example command-line invocation # ansible www.example.net -m facter - name: Execute facter no arguments community.general.facter: - name: Execute facter with arguments community.general.facter: arguments: - -p - system_uptime - timezone - is_virtual
Authors
- Ansible Core Team
- Michael DeHaan