Ansible Role: Epic ODB

This role will prepare RHEL servers to act as Epic ODB servers.

Requirements

To run the role successfully against RHEL 8+ or Ubuntu, you will need to pre-install the epic-config package, or have it hosted on a repository already installed on the hosts.

Role Variables

Found in defaults/main.yml (can be overridden in inventory):

useepicatservice: Whether to use [email protected] as opposed to epic.service for starting instance(s) on the server.

Found in vars/main.yml:

epic_users: Local Epic specific accounts to be setup on each ODB server.

Variables set only in inventory:

odb_instances: List of instances on server.
epic_environments: List of Epic environments along with their respective instances
nr_hugepages: Number of hugepages
firewalld_services: Definition of firewalld services to create
epic_passwords: Password hashes for local accounts. Hashes for RHEL 7 can be
  generated using: openssl passwd -6 on openssl v1.1 or newer or examples found
  here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/76337/358648
forced_epicusers: Users to be added to epicuser group
epicuser_groups: Groups of users to be added to epicuser group

Dependencies

No other roles are required

Example Playbook

inventory:

---
odb:
  epic-prd:
    odb_instances:
      - 'prd'

    epic_environments:
      - Instance: 'PRD'
        Environment: 'PRD'

    nr_hugepages: 112763

    # These should be stored in a vault somewhere
    epic_passwords:
      epicadm: $6$CAuJvjioZaK6OfAI$hcU2HIzJG2e8ZaqcUATQ0UzFZPcFrOlUnLC7OV13Ect0A.KKVUC1lRK4KfF26u3r8iZClZOlREwhj4w5kQaVY/
      epicdmn: $6$W6CPWrIRuKp4VxDK$imCJgLaHLcvXXPx9EbPEalmIe5kBE9H6UbOuisfuuU4vwuFot9n7e7YQUUHnC41QkP3a4JUUtUVkWcsTtLynC1
      epicsupt: $6$htfX4OnvYGmVTii.$0G81Mp6svyullK3JPwXvBaSbCvh1FOVZnBVYzMWgk14AiSxtjYUWER4de2w989zX7K1zEPebdTYROhoPqui311
      epictxt: $6$Xi.mHrTLDgFNPq8X$SbLerE4LBeCGNoCvTkksYl6DyPuKcaS4ZT.Tlg9ZWQItmBQup5I5XY60GpareUyX8Cg0EnIYfpSfz3G.dCHU11
      iscagent: $6$Z8Q4GIqVUkSx71Ig$DqzrkYG5F3.lpnBBptsVX0grwistyWJOo7JfHS5tgqGbBH9uVAJSSi8i5eMQARcLHvt7x335MzE.Ln9SVAKY30

    forced_epicusers:
      - some_ad_user

    epicuser_groups:
      - some_ad_group

    odb_firewall_services:
      - name: epiccomm
        description: EpicComm
        ports:
          - port: 6050
      - name: licensing
        description: Epic Licensing Server
        ports:
          - port: 4001
            protocol: 'udp'
      - name: procedure-logs
        description: Epic Procedure Logs
        ports:
          - port: 11913
      - name: redalert
        description: Epic Red Alert Monitoring Agent
        ports:
          - port: 10443
      - name: isc-mirroring
        description: Cache' ISC Agent Mirroring
        ports:
          - port: 2188
      - name: superserver
        description: Cache' Superserver
        ports:
          - port: 1950
      - name: webserver
        description: Cache' Webserver
        ports:
          - port: 4950
      - name: bridges
        description: Epic Bridges
        ports:
          - port: 1751
          - port: 3101
      - name: datacourier
        description: Epic Datacourier
        ports:
          - port: 65000
          - port: 65111

playbook:

- hosts: odb
  roles: epic_odb

License

MIT

Author Information

Jameson Pugh [email protected]