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# mysql_info – Gather information about MySQL servers

New in version 2.9.

- Synopsis
- Requirements
- Parameters
- Notes
- Examples
- Return Values
- Status

## Synopsis

- Gathers information about MySQL servers.

## Requirements

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

- PyMySQL (Python 2.7 and Python 3.X), or
- MySQLdb (Python 2.x)

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
ca_cert path |  | The path to a Certificate Authority (CA) certificate. This option, if used, must specify the same certificate as used by the server. aliases: ssl_ca
client_cert path |  | The path to a client public key certificate. aliases: ssl_cert
client_key path |  | The path to the client private key. aliases: ssl_key
config_file path | Default: "~/.my.cnf" | Specify a config file from which user and password are to be read.
connect_timeout integer | Default: 30 | The connection timeout when connecting to the MySQL server.
filter list / elements=string |  | Limit the collected information by comma separated string or YAML list. Allowable values are `version`, `databases`, `settings`, `users`, `slave_status`, `slave_hosts`, `master_status`, `engines`. By default, collects all subsets. You can use '!' before value (for example, `!settings`) to exclude it from the information. If you pass including and excluding values to the filter, for example, filter=!settings,version, the excluding values, `!settings` in this case, will be ignored.
login_db string |  | Database name to connect to. It makes sense if login_user is allowed to connect to a specific database only.
login_host string | Default: "localhost" | Host running the database.
login_password string |  | The password used to authenticate with.
login_port integer | Default: 3306 | Port of the MySQL server. Requires login_host be defined as other than localhost if login_port is used.
login_unix_socket string |  | The path to a Unix domain socket for local connections.
login_user string |  | The username used to authenticate with.

## Notes

Note

- Requires the PyMySQL (Python 2.7 and Python 3.X) or MySQL-python (Python 2.X) package on the remote host. The Python package may be installed with apt-get install python-pymysql (Ubuntu; see apt) or yum install python2-PyMySQL (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora; see yum). You can also use dnf install python2-PyMySQL for newer versions of Fedora; see dnf.
- Both `login_password` and `login_user` are required when you are passing credentials. If none are present, the module will attempt to read the credentials from `~/.my.cnf`, and finally fall back to using the MySQL default login of ‘root’ with no password.

## Examples

    # Display info from mysql-hosts group (using creds from ~/.my.cnf to connect):
    # ansible mysql-hosts -m mysql_info

    # Display only databases and users info:
    # ansible mysql-hosts -m mysql_info -a 'filter=databases,users'

    # Display only slave status:
    # ansible standby -m mysql_info -a 'filter=slave_status'

    # Display all info from databases group except settings:
    # ansible databases -m mysql_info -a 'filter=!settings'

    - name: Collect all possible information using passwordless root access
      mysql_info:
        login_user: root

    - name: Get MySQL version with non-default credentials
      mysql_info:
        login_user: mysuperuser
        login_password: mysuperpass
        filter: version

    - name: Collect all info except settings and users by root
      mysql_info:
        login_user: root
        login_password: rootpass
        filter: "!settings,!users"

    - name: Collect info about databases and version using ~/.my.cnf as a credential file
      become: yes
      mysql_info:
        filter:
        - databases
        - version

    - name: Collect info about databases and version using ~alice/.my.cnf as a credential file
      become: yes
      mysql_info:
        config_file: /home/alice/.my.cnf
        filter:
        - databases

## Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
databases dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Information about databases. Sample: [{'mysql': {'size': 656594}, 'information_schema': {'size': 73728}}]
| size dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Database size in bytes. Sample: {'size': 656594}
engines dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Information about the server's storage engines. Sample: [{'CSV': {'Comment': 'CSV storage engine', 'Savepoints': 'NO', 'Support': 'YES', 'Transactions': 'NO', 'XA': 'NO'}}]
master_status dictionary | if master | Master status information. Sample: [{'Binlog_Do_DB': '', 'Binlog_Ignore_DB': 'mysql', 'File': 'mysql-bin.000001', 'Position': 769}]
settings dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Global settings (variables) information. Sample: [{'innodb_open_files': 300, 'innodb_page_size"': 16384}]
slave_hosts dictionary | if master | Slave status information. Sample: [{'2': {'Host': '', 'Master_id': 1, 'Port': 3306}}]
slave_status dictionary | if standby | Slave status information. Sample: [{'192.168.1.101': {'3306': {'replication_user': {'Connect_Retry': 60, 'Exec_Master_Log_Pos': 769, 'Last_Errno': 0}}}}]
users dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Users information. Sample: [{'localhost': {'root': {'Alter_priv': 'Y', 'Alter_routine_priv': 'Y'}}}]
version dictionary | if not excluded by filter | Database server version. Sample: {'version': {'major': 5, 'minor': 5, 'release': 60}}
| major integer | if not excluded by filter | Major server version. Sample: 5
| minor integer | if not excluded by filter | Minor server version. Sample: 5
| release integer | if not excluded by filter | Release server version. Sample: 60

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Andrew Klychkov (@Andersson007)

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