CPM Ansible Role

This Ansible Role will deploy and install CyberArk Central Policy 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
• CPM CD image

Role Variables

These are the variables used in this playbook:

Flow Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
cpm_prerequisites	no	false	Install CPM pre requisites
cpm_install	no	false	Install CPM
cpm_hardening	no	false	Apply CPM hardening
cpm_registration	no	false	Connect CPM to the Vault
cpm_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
cpm_zip_file_path	yes	None	CyberArk CPM installation Zip file package path
cpm_installation_drive	no	C:	Destination installation drive
cpm_username	no	PasswordManager	Vault Component's username

Dependencies

None

Usage

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

cpm_install

This task will deploy the CPM to required folder and validate successful deployment.

cpm_hardening

This task will run the CPM hardening process.

cpm_registration

This task will perform registration with active Vault.

cpm_validateparameters

This task will validate which CPM steps have already occurred on the server to prevent repetition.

cpm_clean

This task will clean the configuration (inf) files from the installation, delete the CPM 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 CPM role with several parameters:

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- include_role:
    name: cpm
  vars:
    - cpm_prerequisites: true
    - cpm_install: true
    - cpm_hardening: true
    - cpm_registration: 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