ansible/rst/modules/setup.rst

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This module is automatically called by playbooks to gather useful variables about remote hosts that can be used in playbooks. It can also be executed directly by ``/usr/bin/ansible`` to check what variables are available to a host. Ansible provides many *facts* about the system, automatically. 


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    <p>Obtain facts from all hosts and store them indexed by hostname at /tmp/facts.</p>
    <p><pre>
    ansible all -m setup -tree /tmp/facts</pre></p>

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Tweaking module docs as a result of integrating the new module docs generator 2012-09-28 03:33:55 +02:00			This module is automatically called by playbooks to gather useful variables about remote hosts that can be used in playbooks. It can also be executed directly by ``/usr/bin/ansible`` to check what variables are available to a host. Ansible provides many facts about the system, automatically.
Break the modules docs into separate files. 2012-08-13 21:39:00 +02:00



Tweaking module docs as a result of integrating the new module docs generator 2012-09-28 03:33:55 +02:00			`.. raw:: html`
Break the modules docs into separate files. 2012-08-13 21:39:00 +02:00

Tweaking module docs as a result of integrating the new module docs generator 2012-09-28 03:33:55 +02:00			`<p>Obtain facts from all hosts and store them indexed by hostname at /tmp/facts.</p>`
			`<p><pre>`
			`ansible all -m setup -tree /tmp/facts</pre></p>`

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