PSM Ansible Role

This Ansible Role will deploy and install CyberArk Privileged Session Manager including the pre-requisites, application, hardening and connect to an existing Vault environment.

Requirements

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• 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

Flow Variables

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

Deployment Variables

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
connect_with_rdp	yes	No	Disable NLA on the server
psm_installation_drive	no	C:	Destination installation drive
psm_out_of_domain	no	false	Flag to determine if server is out of domain

Dependencies

None

Usage

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.

Example Playbook

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

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