#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan # # This file is part of Ansible # # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with Ansible. If not, see . DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: setup version_added: historical short_description: Gathers facts about remote hosts options: gather_subset: version_added: "2.1" description: - "if supplied, restrict the additional facts collected to the given subset. Possible values: all, hardware, network, virtual, ohai, and facter Can specify a list of values to specify a larger subset. Values can also be used with an initial C(!) to specify that that specific subset should not be collected. For instance: !hardware, !network, !virtual, !ohai, !facter. Note that a few facts are always collected. Use the filter parameter if you do not want to display those." required: false default: 'all' filter: version_added: "1.1" description: - if supplied, only return facts that match this shell-style (fnmatch) wildcard. required: false default: '*' fact_path: version_added: "1.3" description: - path used for local ansible facts (*.fact) - files in this dir will be run (if executable) and their results be added to 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 required: false 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. 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 into the JSON file for usage in templating. These variables are prefixed with C(facter_) and C(ohai_) so it's easy to tell their source. All variables are bubbled up to the caller. Using the ansible facts and choosing to not install I(facter) and I(ohai) means you can avoid Ruby-dependencies on your remote systems. (See also M(facter) and M(ohai).) - The filter option filters only the first level subkey below ansible_facts. - If the target host is Windows, you will not currently have the ability to use C(filter) as this is provided by a simpler implementation of the module. - If the target host is Windows you can now use C(fact_path). Make sure that this path exists on the target host. Files in this path MUST be PowerShell scripts (*.ps1) and their output must be formattable in JSON (Ansible will take care of this). Test the output of your scripts. This option was added in Ansible 2.1. author: - "Ansible Core Team" - "Michael DeHaan" - "David O'Brien @david_obrien davidobrien1985" ''' EXAMPLES = """ # Display facts from all hosts and store them indexed by I(hostname) at C(/tmp/facts). ansible all -m setup --tree /tmp/facts # Display only facts regarding memory found by ansible on all hosts and output them. ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_*_mb' # Display only facts returned by facter. ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=facter_*' # Display only facts about certain interfaces. ansible all -m setup -a 'filter=ansible_eth[0-2]' # Restrict additional gathered facts to network and virtual. ansible all -m setup -a 'gather_subset=network,virtual' # Do not call puppet facter or ohai even if present. ansible all -m setup -a 'gather_subset=!facter,!ohai' # Only collect the minimum amount of facts: ansible all -m setup -a 'gather_subset=!all' # Display facts from Windows hosts with custom facts stored in C(C:\\custom_facts). ansible windows -m setup -a "fact_path='c:\\custom_facts'" """ def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec = dict( gather_subset=dict(default=["all"], required=False, type='list'), filter=dict(default="*", required=False), fact_path=dict(default='/etc/ansible/facts.d', required=False), ), supports_check_mode = True, ) data = get_all_facts(module) module.exit_json(**data) # import module snippets from ansible.module_utils.basic import * from ansible.module_utils.facts import * if __name__ == '__main__': main()