ansible-ocs

An Ansible role for installing ocsinventory-agent.

This role only works with the ocsinventory-agent 2.1 or later to let the agent be installed non-interactively (http://wiki.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php/Documentation:UnixAgent).

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• CentOS 7 and 8
• Debian 8, 9, 10

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

A description of the settable variables for this role should go here, including any variables that are in defaults/main.yml, vars/main.yml, and any variables that can/should be set via parameters to the role. Any variables that are read from other roles and/or the global scope (ie. hostvars, group vars, etc.) should be mentioned here as well.

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

---
ocs_name: "Ocsinventory-Unix-Agent"
ocs_agent_version: "2.6.0"
ocs_archive: "{{ ocs_name }}-{{ ocs_agent_version }}"
ocs_pkg: "{{ ocs_archive }}.tar.gz"
ocs_down_url: "https://github.com/OCSInventory-NG/UnixAgent/releases/download/v{{ ocs_agent_version }}/{{ ocs_pkg }}"
ocs_down_dir: /tmp
ocs_server: ocsinventory-server.domain.name
ocs_basedir: /var/lib/ocsinventory-agent
ocs_configdir: /etc/ocsinventory
ocs_tag: srvtype
ocs_logfile: /var/log/ocsinventory-agent.log
ocs_options: --crontab --remove-old-linux-agent --debug --download --snmp --now
ocs_ssl: false
ocs_ca:

Dependencies

Development tools and perl dependencies are included into roles's requirements. This role installs and uses CPAN to install perl 'Digest::MD5'.

Example Playbook

How to use this role:

---
- hosts: all
  gather_facts: true
  become: yes
  roles:
    - ocs_agent
  vars:
    - ocs_server: ocs.mydomain.com
    - ocs_ssl: true
    - ocs_tag: "{{ ansible_hostname }}"

License

Apache v2.0

Author Information

This role was created in 2015 by FranLR

Updated by paulbsd Updated by cgregoirovh