community.general.ohai module – Returns inventory data from Ohai
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 12.6.1).
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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ohai.
Synopsis
- Similar to the community.general.facter_facts 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
Attributes
Attribute | Support | Description |
|---|---|---|
check_mode | Support: none | Can run in |
diff_mode | Support: none | Returns details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Examples
# fmt: console ansible webservers -m ohai --tree=/tmp/ohaidata ...
Collection links
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2025 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/ohai_module.html
