Specifying SSH port in Ansible Inventory

There may be some instances where you set a custom port for SSH on your network device. If ssh port for hosts is different than the default port 22, it can be specified in the inventory file with colon (:) after hostname.

#vi inventory
 # Inventory file for Ansible
 [XE]
ios-xe-mgmt.cisco.com:8181
ios-xe-mgmt-latest.cisco.com:8181
 [XR]
sbx-iosxr-mgmt.cisco.com:8181


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