/ansible-was

Ansible roles for IBM WebSphere Application Server installation (incl. IIM, IHS, PLG)

I'M NOT MAINTAINING THIS ANYMORE AS I'M NO LONGER DOING WAS.

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ansible-was

Roles for installing and managing IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS) on *nix (tested on Debian Linux), including the IBM Installation Manager (IIM), IBM HTTP Server (IHS) and Plugin (PLG).

IIM

Installs the IBM Installation Manager.

Requirements

On the OS setfacl and unzip must be installed.

  • Debian: setfacl & zip
  • CentOS: setfacl & unzip

The user with group {{iim_user}}:{iim_group}} must exist.

Sufficient rights for this user to create the {{iim_repo}}, {{iim_tmp}} and {{iim_path}} directories.

Variables

  • iim_user or ibm_user (iim_user: "{{ibm_user}}"): User as which to install IIM. required

  • iim_path or ibm_root (iim_path: "{{ibm_root}}/InstallationManager"): Path where to install IIM. required

  • ibm_repo: Location of the IBM repositories. default: "{{ibm_root}}/repo"

  • ibm_mode: Default directory mode. default: "0750"

  • iim_version: Minimal required version of IIM. default: "1.8"

  • iim_path: Path where to install IIM. default: "{{ibm_root}}/InstallationManager"

  • iim_repo: Repository containing the IIM installation files. default: "{{ibm_repo}}/IIM"

  • iim_tmp: Temporary directory where installtion zips are temporary put before unzipping. default: "{{ibm_root}}/tmp"

  • iim_group: Group of the iim_user. default: "{{iim_user}}"

  • iim_mode: Mode for the directories that are created. default: "{{ibm_mode}}"

  • iim_local_src: This will bypass all of the copying of the zip file to the managed node and just use a zip file on the managed node's filesystem. Use this if you copy the zip file yourself or mounted for instance an NFS with the installation zip files before.

Example of use

See playbook-iim.yml for installing.

WAS

Installs or uninstalls the IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Requirements

On the OS setfacl and unzip (Debian packages acl & zip) must be installed.

The user with group {{was_user}}:{was_group}} must exist.

Sufficient rights for this user to create the {{was_repo}}, {{iim_tmp}} and {{was_path}} directories.

Variables

  • was_user or ibm_user (was_user: "{{ibm_user}}"): User as which to install WAS (must also be the user IIM is installed with). required

  • was_path or ibm_root (was_path: "{{ibm_root}}/WebSphere". required

  • was_repo or ibm_repo (was_repo: "{{ibm_repo}}"). required

  • state: installed or *absent". default: installed

  • was_nd: false or true. default: false

  • ibm_repo: Location of the IBM repositories. default: "{{ibm_root}}/repo"

  • ibm_mode: Default directory mode. default: "0750"

  • was_version: Miniamal version required. default: "9.0"

  • was_imcl_package_name: Name of the WAS package as required by imcl of IIM

  • jdk_imcl_package_name: Name of the JDK package as required by imcl of IIM

  • was_imcl_package_regex: Regex that matches the WAS package name inlcuding version. default: "com.ibm.websphere.BASE.v[0-9]+_([0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)"

  • was_group: Group of the was_user. default: "{{was_user}}"

  • was_mode: Mode for the directories that are created. default: "{{ibm_mode}}"

  • was_local_src: This will bypass all of the copying of the WAS zip file to the managed node and just use a zip file on the manged node's filesystem. Use this if you copy the zip file yourself or mounted for instance an NFS with the installation zip files before.

  • jdk_local_src: This will bypass all of the copying of the SDK zip file to the managed node and just use a zip file on the manged node's filesystem. Use this if you copy the zip file yourself or mounted for instance an NFS with the installation zip files before.

Examples of use

See playbook-was.yml for installing.

See playbook-uninstall-was.yml for the uninstall.

IHS (+ PLG)

Installs or uninstalls the IBM HTTP Server and Plugin.

Requirements

On the OS setfacl and unzip (Debian packages acl & zip) must be installed.

The user with group {{ihs_user}}:{{ihs_group}} must exist.

Sufficient rights for this user to create the {{ihs_repo}}, {{plg_repo}}, {{iim_tmp}}, {{ihs_path}} and {{plg_path}} directories.

Variables

TODO: similar to WAS but with ihs_ and plg_

Examples of use

See playbook-ihs.yml for installing.

See playbook-uninstall-ihs.yml for the uninstall.