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

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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:

---
- 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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