Hi Juerg

thank you very much, it is working fine with add_host :)

Is that worth a feature request, to use remote_port (similar naming to 
remote_user) together with delegate_to?

Best Regards,
Raphael

Juerg Ritter schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 um 22:23:15 UTC+1:

> Hi Raphael,
>
> Oh I see. One solution might be to use the add_host module, which allows 
> you to add hosts to your inventory on the fly (it won't be persisted). Just 
> add a task which adds your target host for the delegation along with the 
> ansible_port variable before your delegate_to task.
>
> The documentation can be found here:
>
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/add_host_module.html
>
> Hope this helps!
> -- Juerg
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:13 PM Raphael Ebner <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Juerg,
>>
>> Yes, the host is part of my Inventory.
>> I tried it and set delegate_to to the inventory hostname, which woks 
>> fine. 
>>
>> But I've multiple inventories, and all hosts of each inventory needs this 
>> delegated_to task. How can I handle it for all other inventories, because I 
>> can't add this host to all inventories?
>> Have you an idea?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Raphael
>>
>> Juerg Ritter schrieb am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021 um 21:46:25 UTC+1:
>>
>>> Hi Raphael,
>>>
>>> Is the host you are trying to delegate the task to part of your 
>>> inventory? 
>>>
>>> My next try would be to add this host in the inventory and specify the 
>>> custom port for this particular host as a host variable. An example can be 
>>> found here:
>>>
>>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#assigning-a-variable-to-one-machine-host-variables
>>>
>>> I hope that helps!
>>>
>>> Regards, Juerg
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:30 PM Raphael Ebner <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Community,
>>>>
>>>> I need to delegate one task in my play to another remote linux ssh host 
>>>> with delegate_to. So far so good. But now the problem: my remote host has 
>>>> a 
>>>> custom ssh port. When running the play I always get "Failed to connect to 
>>>> the host via ssh: ssh: connect to host x.x.x.x port 22: Connection timed 
>>>> out". How can I specify at task level a custom ssh port for delegate_to?
>>>>
>>>> I already tried: "delegate_to: IP:PORT" and setting "ansible_port: 
>>>> PORT" at task level, but without success.
>>>>
>>>> May someone has an idea how to handle this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Raphael
>>>>
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