Similar to the facter module, this runs the Ohai discovery program (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Ohai) on the remote host and returns JSON inventory data. Ohai data is a bit more verbose and nested than facter.
- ohai
# Retrieve (ohai) data from all Web servers and store in one-file per host ansible webservers -m ohai --tree=/tmp/ohaidata
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