Ansible ad-hoc solution for collecting network hosts inventory via cli
Outline the use of an Ansible ad-hoc solution for collecting network hosts inventory via cli on Ubuntu 14.04 This is by no means the most efficient method. I highly recommend learning the ansible playbook methodology I have yet to learn myself. ansible http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks.html I have not found a way to implicitly change ssh port value via cli. The solution recommended is to add each host to etc/ansible/hosts accompanied by their respective custom port. 10.0.0.1:1234 To add/remove hosts edit the following. vi /etc/ansible/hosts The hosts values can be grouped. In this case we are grouping by the root password needed to access the hosts [password_list_1] 10.2.0.2:1234 10.2.8.7:1234 [password_list_2] 10.1.0.3:1234 10.1.0.17:1234 Save and exit the hosts file. Issue ansible commands like so. ansible will request the ssh login for that group and proceed to collect host inventory information. ansible passwo