ansible/rst/modules/setup.rst
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.. _setup:
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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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