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# purefa_facts – Collect facts from Pure Storage FlashArray

New in version 2.6.

- DEPRECATED

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Status

## DEPRECATED

Removed in Ansible

  version: 2.13

Why

  Deprecated in favor of `_info` module.

Alternative

  Use purefa_info instead.

## Synopsis

- Collect facts information from a Pure Storage Flasharray running the Purity//FA operating system. By default, the module will collect basic fact information including hosts, host groups, protection groups and volume counts. Additional fact information can be collected based on the configured set of arguments.

## Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

- python >= 2.7

- purestorage

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
api_token string / required |  | FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
fa_url string / required |  | FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
gather_subset list | Default: "minimum" | When supplied, this argument will define the facts to be collected. Possible values for this include all, minimum, config, performance, capacity, network, subnet, interfaces, hgroups, pgroups, hosts, admins, volumes, snapshots, pods, vgroups, offload, apps and arrays.

## Notes

Note

- This module requires the `purestorage` Python library

- You must set `PUREFA_URL` and `PUREFA_API` environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

## Examples

    - name: collect default set of facts
      purefa_facts:
        fa_url: 10.10.10.2
        api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

    - name: collect configuration and capacity facts
      purefa_facts:
        gather_subset:
          - config
          - capacity
        fa_url: 10.10.10.2
        api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

    - name: collect all facts
      purefa_facts:
        gather_subset:
          - all
        fa_url: 10.10.10.2
        api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

## Status

- This module will be removed in version 2.13. [deprecated]

- For more information see DEPRECATED.

### Authors

- Pure Storage ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.com>

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