42.2. Ensuring the presence of an IdM host entry with DNS information using Ansible playbooks

Procedure

1. Create an Ansible playbook file with the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host whose presence in IdM you want to ensure. In addition, if the IdM server is configured to manage DNS and you know the IP address of the host, specify a value for the ip_address parameter. The IP address is necessary for the host to exist in the DNS resource records. To simplify this step, you can copy and modify the example in the /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/freeipa/ansible_freeipa/playbooks/host/host-present.yml file. You can also include other, additional information:

   ---
   - name: Host present
     hosts: ipaserver
   
     vars_files:
     - /home/user_name/MyPlaybooks/secret.yml
     tasks:
     - name: Ensure host01.idm.example.com is present
       freeipa.ansible_freeipa.ipahost:
         ipaadmin_password: "{{ ipaadmin_password }}"
         name: host01.idm.example.com
         description: Example host
         ip_address: 192.168.0.123
         locality: Lab
         ns_host_location: Lab
         ns_os_version: CentOS 7
         ns_hardware_platform: Lenovo T61
         mac_address:
         - "08:00:27:E3:B1:2D"
         - "52:54:00:BD:97:1E"
         state: present

2. Run the playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook --vault-password-file=password_file -v -i path_to_inventory_directory/inventory.file path_to_playbooks_directory/ensure-host-is-present.yml

   注記

   The procedure results in a host entry in the IdM LDAP server being created but not in enrolling the host into the IdM Kerberos realm. For that, you must deploy the host as an IdM client. For details, see Installing an Identity Management client using an Ansible playbook.

Verification

1. Log in to your IdM server as admin:

   $ ssh admin@server.idm.example.com
   Password:

2. Enter the ipa host-show command and specify the name of the host:

   $ ipa host-show host01.idm.example.com
     Host name: host01.idm.example.com
     Description: Example host
     Locality: Lab
     Location: Lab
     Platform: Lenovo T61
     Operating system: CentOS 7
     Principal name: host/host01.idm.example.com@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
     Principal alias: host/host01.idm.example.com@IDM.EXAMPLE.COM
     MAC address: 08:00:27:E3:B1:2D, 52:54:00:BD:97:1E
     Password: False
     Keytab: False
     Managed by: host01.idm.example.com