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 password_list_1 -m setup -u root -k --tree /tmp/inventory
or
ansible password_list_2 -m setup -u root -k --tree /tmp/inventory
To get a list of failed attempts at fetching the inventory
find /tmp/inventory -size -16b
