PSMP-Activate Ansible Role

This Ansible Role will activate the CyberArk Privileged Session Manager PSM-SSH against an existing vault on an exisiting PSM-SSH machine that is not activated Do note that psmp-deploy can be ran prior to this role

Requirements

CentOS / RHEL installed on the remote host
SSH open on port 22
The workstation running the playbook must have network connectivity to the remote host
Administrator access to the remote host
PSM-SSH deployed on the remote machine

Flow Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
psmp_validate_machine	no	false	Run the validate machine PSMP phase
psmp_pre_activate	no	false	Run the pre activate PSMP phase
psmp_activate	no	false	Run the activation PSMP phase
psmp_post_activate	no	false	Run the post activation PSMP phase
psmp_validate_activation	no	false	Run the validate activation PSMP phase
psmp_pre_deactivate	no	false	Run the pre deactivate PSMP phase
psmp_deactivate	no	false	Run the deactivate PSMP phase
psmp_post_deactivate	no	false	Run the post deactivate PSMP phase

Deployment Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
accept_eula	yes	No	Accepting EULA condition (Yes/No)
vault_ip	yes	None	IP of the vault to register to
vault_username	yes	None	Vault username to be used for the registration, can be either credfile or username/password for the vault
vault_password	yes	None	Vault password to be used for the registration, can be either credfile or username/password for the vault
credfile_path	yes	None	Vault credfile to be used for the registration, can be either credfile or username/password for the vault
dr_vault_ip	no	None	Disaster Recovery vault IP to use
vault_name	no	PSM SSH Vault	Name of the vault
vault_port	no	1858	Port of the vault
vault_comm_timeout	no	10	Timeout of PSMP communication to the vault
psmp_create_psmp_env	no	true	Whether to activate PSMP or not
psmp_create_adbridge_env	no	true	Whether to activate PSMP ADBridge or not
psmp_app_user_name	no	PSMPApp_	Name of the PSMP app user to use
psmp_gw_user_name	no	PSMPGW_	Name of the PSMP gateway user to use
psmp_adb_user_name	no	PSMP_ADB_	Name of the PSMP ADBridge user to use
psmp_preauth_secured_session	no	false	Whether to enable preauth secured session for LDAP / Radius connections
psmp_selfsigned_certificates	no	false	Whether to allow self signed certificate connections via the vault
psmp_delete_credfile	no	false	Whether to delete the cred file used for the activation, if password is used, the cred file will be deleted
psmp_fetch_activation_logs	no	true	Whether to fetch the activation logs back to the host, will be fetched to either current logs dir or DEFAULT_LOG_PATH env var

Dependencies

PSMP Installed on the machine

Usage

The role consists of a number of different tasks which can be enabled or disabled for the particular run.

psmp_validate_params

This task will validate and init parameters for activation and will also check if PSMP is installed or not

psmp_validate_machine

This task will validate that all the binaries and paths for the activation exists on the machine and whether PSMP was already activated or not

psmp_pre_activate

This task will prepare the vault ini file for the activation and create the cred file if username and password were given

psmp_activate

This task will run the activation for both PSMP and ADBridge

psmp_post_activate

This task will run the post activation for both PSMP and ADBridge

psmp_validate_activation

This task will validate that the activation was successful, and that PSMP / ADBridge are running properly

psmp_pre_deactivate

This task will create the cred file for the deactivation if username and password were given

psmp_deactivate

This task will perform the deactivation of the PSMP

psmp_post_deactivate

This task will run the post deactivation for both PSMP and ADBridge

Example Playbook

Below is an example of how you can incorporate this role into an Ansible playbook to call the PSMP Activate role with several parameters:

---
- include_role:
    name: psmp-activate
  vars:
    - psmp_validate_machine: true
    - psmp_pre_activate: true
    - psmp_activate: true
    - psmp_validate_activation: true
    - vault_ip: ""
    - vault_username: ""
    - vault_password: ""
    - psmp_enable_preauth_secured_session: true
    - psmp_enable_selfsigned_certificates: true
    - accept_eula: "Yes"

Running the playbook:

For an example of how to incorporate this role into a complete playbook, please see the pas-orchestrator example.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

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