Updating documentation for the setup module (#60696)

pull/60668/merge
Jiri Tyr 5 years ago committed by Alicia Cozine
parent e7a8e48053
commit 134379b273

@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ options:
gather_subset:
version_added: "2.1"
description:
- "if supplied, restrict the additional facts collected to the given subset.
- "If supplied, restrict the additional facts collected to the given subset.
Possible values: C(all), C(min), C(hardware), C(network), C(virtual), C(ohai), and
C(facter). Can specify a list of values to specify a larger subset.
Values can also be used with an initial C(!) to specify that
@ -34,37 +34,37 @@ options:
Use the filter parameter if you do not want to display some collected
facts."
required: false
default: 'all'
default: "all"
gather_timeout:
version_added: "2.2"
description:
- "Set the default timeout in seconds for individual fact gathering"
- Set the default timeout in seconds for individual fact gathering.
required: false
default: 10
filter:
version_added: "1.1"
description:
- if supplied, only return facts that match this shell-style (fnmatch) wildcard.
- If supplied, only return facts that match this shell-style (fnmatch) wildcard.
required: false
default: '*'
default: "*"
fact_path:
version_added: "1.3"
description:
- path used for local ansible facts (C(*.fact)) - files in this dir
- Path used for local ansible facts (C(*.fact)) - files in this dir
will be run (if executable) and their results be added to C(ansible_local) facts
if a file is not executable it is read. Check notes for Windows options. (from 2.1 on)
File/results format can be JSON or INI-format. The default C(fact_path) can be
specified in C(ansible.cfg) for when setup is automatically called as part of
C(gather_facts).
required: false
default: '/etc/ansible/facts.d'
default: /etc/ansible/facts.d
description:
- 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 C(/usr/bin/ansible) to check what variables are
available to a host. Ansible provides many I(facts) about the system,
automatically.
- This module is also supported for Windows targets.
- 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 C(/usr/bin/ansible) to check what variables are
available to a host. Ansible provides many I(facts) about the system,
automatically.
- This module is also supported for Windows targets.
notes:
- More ansible facts will be added with successive releases. If I(facter) or
I(ohai) are installed, variables from these programs will also be snapshotted

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