This Ansible Role will deploy and install CyberArk Privileged Session Manager including the pre-requisites, application, hardening and connect to an existing Vault environment.
- Windows 2016 installed on the remote host
- WinRM open on port 5986 (not 5985) on the remote host
- Pywinrm is installed on the workstation running the playbook
- The workstation running the playbook must have network connectivity to the remote host
- The remote host must have Network connectivity to the CyberArk vault and the repository server
- 443 port outbound
- 1858 port outbound
- Administrator access to the remote host
- PSM CD image
Variable | Required | Default | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
psm_prerequisites | no | false | Install PSM pre requisites |
psm_install | no | false | Install PSM |
psm_postinstall | no | false | PSM post install role |
psm_hardening | no | false | Apply PSM hardening |
psm_registration | no | false | Connect PSM to the Vault |
psm_clean | no | false | N/A |
platform | no | aws | Deployed platform (aws/azure) |
Variable | Required | Default | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
vault_ip | yes | None | Vault IP to perform registration |
vault_port | no | 1858 | Vault port |
vault_username | no | administrator | Vault username to perform registration |
vault_password | yes | None | Vault password to perform registration |
secure_vault_password | no | None | Secure Vault password to perform registration |
dr_vault_ip | no | None | Vault DR IP address to perform registration |
accept_eula | yes | No | Accepting EULA condition (Yes/No) |
psm_zip_file_path | yes | None | CyberArk PSM installation Zip file package path |
psm_installation_drive | no | C: | Destination installation drive |
psm_out_of_domain | no | false | Flag to determine if server is out of domain |
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The role consists of a number of different tasks which can be enabled or disabled for the particular run.
psm_prerequisites
This task will run the PSM pre-requisites steps.
psm_install
This task will deploy the PSM to required folder and validate successful deployment.
psm_postinstall
This task will run the PSM post installation steps.
psm_hardening
This task will run the PSM hardening process.
psm_registration
This task will perform registration with active Vault.
psm_validateparameters
This task will validate which PSM steps have already occurred on the server to prevent repetition.
psm_clean
This task will clean the configuration (inf) files from the installation, delete the PSM installation logs from the Temp folder and delete the cred files.
Below is an example of how you can incorporate this role into an Ansible playbook to call the PSM role with several parameters:
---
- ansible.builtin.include_role:
name: psm
vars:
- psm_prerequisites: true
- psm_install: true
- psm_postinstall: true
- psm_hardening: true
- ps_clean: true
For an example of how to incorporate this role into a complete playbook, please see the pas-orchestrator example.
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