ansible-redhat_cloudforms

Ansible playbooks for Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine (CFME).

Playbooks

Playbooks provided by this project.

migrate-5-7-to-5-8.yml

Performs a migration from CFME 5.7 to 5.8 utilizing steps from Migrating to Red Hat CloudForms 4.5. This playbook does not currently perform a backup, resize the disks or handle database replication scenarios.

Assumptions

• Appliances have already been backed up per General Configuration Section 4.4.5.1.
• Disks have already been resized.
• Environments are not utilizing database replication.
• Appliances have had memory increased to 12Gb for CloudForms 4.5 and newer appliances per requirement.

Required groups

• cfme
• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
cfme_addiitonal_repositories	No			Additional repositories to configure when performing the migration

migrate-5-8-to-5-9.yml

Performs a migration from CFME 5.8 to 5.9 utilizing steps from Migrating to Red Hat CloudForms 4.6. This playbook does not currently perform a backup, resize the disks or handle database replication scenarios.

Assumptions

• Appliances have already been backed up per General Configuration Section 4.4.5.1.
• Disks have already been resized. (Only necessary if migrating from CFME 5.8.0.17 or earlier)
• Environments are not utilizing database replication.

Required groups

• cfme
• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
cfme_addiitonal_repositories	No			Additional repositories to configure when performing the migration

rolling-update.yml

Performs an update/upgrade of all packages on the CFME appliances and performs a reboot if necessary.

Required groups

• cfme
• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
cfme_addiitonal_repositories	No			Additional repositories to configure when performing the update

smoke-test-service-provision.yml

Smoke tests Service template provisioning and retirment.

Required groups

• cfme-ui-appliances

Options

parameter	required	default	comments
cfme_api_user	Yes		API user
cfme_api_password	Yes		API password
cfme_service_catalog_name	Yes		Service Catalog that contains the Service Tempalte to test
cfme_service_template_name	Yes		Service Teamplte to test
cfme_provision_service_dialog_options	Yes		Hash of dialog options to pass to the Service Template creation request
cfme_provision_service_retries	No	60	Number of attempts at waiting for Provision Service task to complete
cfme_provision_service_delay	No	60	Number of seconds between attempts at waiting for Provion Service task to complete
cfme_retire_service_retries	No	60	Number of attempts at waiting for Retire Service task to complete
cfme_retire_service_delay	No	60	Number of seconds between attempts at waiting for Retire Service task to complete

start-services.yml

Start all of the DB services then all of the Appliance services.

Required groups

• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

stop-services.yml

Stop all of the Appliance services then all of the DB services.

Required groups

• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

full-stop-start-services.yml

Stop all of the Appliance services, then all of the DB services, then start all of the DB services, then all of the Appliance services, then perform a helath check.

Required groups

• cfme-appliancees
• cfme-databases

health-check.yml

Checks the health of the Appliances.

Required groups

• cfme-appliancees

gather-logs.yml

Gathers relevant logs from all of the appliances and puts them in an archive on the first DB host. Optionally emails the archive.

Required groups

• cfme-databases

Options

parameter	required	default	comments
cfme_gather_logs_smtp_host	No		SMTP host to send log archive email through. If not specified no email will be sent.
cfme_gather_logs_smtp_port	No		SMTP port to send log archive email through. If not specified no email will be sent.
cfme_gather_logs_email_from	No		Email addresses to send the log archive email from. If not specified no email will be sent.
cfme_gather_logs_email_to	No		Email addresses to send the log archive email to. If not specified no email will be sent

install-vddk.yml

Installs the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). This is required to enable Smart State Analysis (SSA) for VMware hosts.

Options

parameter	required	default	comments
cfme_vddk_path	Yes		This is the file path, on the control node, of the downloaded VDDK.