Ansible option to playbook

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Hi,

Anybody know how to use options in playbooks.

The following command works fine:
ansible test -m setup --tree /home/user/ansible/facts

How do I use this in a playbook:

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See here; http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_variables.html#passing-variables-on-the-command-line

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Thanks for the reply Rhys,

I tried:
ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars “–tree /home/user/ansible/facts”
ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars “tree /home/user/ansible/facts”
ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars “tree=/home/user/ansible/facts”

None work.

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Have you tried printing it with the debug module? Paste your playbook here.

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Playbook attached.

(attachments)

setup.yml (111 Bytes)

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Playbook:

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--tree is only an option for `ansible` .. not ansible-playbook, there
is no keyword to do the same in plays.

But since it is now a callback, you can however enabled it as you
would any other callback

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/docs/docsite/rst/plugins/callback.rst

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Thanks Brian,

I’ll ask another way. How do I retrieve system information on servers without using the plugin ‘setup’?