How to install a custom software package using a script

[Iyyappan V]

Hi All,

I am new to Ansible and in learning phase. have a query like how to install a custom software package (hyperic agent) using ansible..

i need to install a software around 3000 servers in one shot from ansible server

I have two things to do,

1. copy package to the server

2. untar the package

3. install the package

Generally that software can be installed manually like below 

#/home/hyperic/hyperic-agent/bin/script.sh start

Will the below playbook work? Unfortunately I am not in a network to connect and test it out by myself. 

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- hosts: all

remote_user: hyperic

become_user: root

become_method: su 

   tasks: 

    # Copy remote file (host.example.com:/tmp/hyperic_agent.tar) into

    # /home/hyperic/hyperic_agent.tar on local machine

    -fetch:

     src: /tmp/hyperic_agent.tar

     dst: /home/hyperic

   -name: Extract hyperic_agent.tar into /home/hyperic

unarchive:

    src:/home/hyperic/hyperic_agent.tar

  dst:/home/hyperic/

  remote_src: yes

   

- name: Install Hyperic

  package: name='hyperic_agent" state=started

  

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[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 12.10.2017 02:09, Iyyappan V wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Ansible and in learning phase. have a query like how to
> install
> a custom software package (hyperic agent) using ansible..
>
> i need to install a software around 3000 servers in one shot from
> ansible
> server
>
> I have two things to do,
>
> 1. copy package to the server
> 2. untar the package
> 3. install the package
>
>
> Generally that software can be installed manually like below
>
> #/home/hyperic/hyperic-agent/bin/script.sh start
>
> Will the below playbook work? Unfortunately I am not in a network to
> connect and test it out by myself.

You have a lot of indentation error in you code, I suggest reading
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/YAMLSyntax.html and
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks.html

Pay attention to indentation, it must be space and you need to be
consistent of how many spaces.

To check the syntax you don't need a network to test, ansible-playbook
has option --syntax-check.
So run you code and fix everything "ansible-playbook --syntax-check
your.yml" complains about, you only need ansible installed to do this.

Since you have so many indentation errors in you code I'm not going to
address them in comment below, only the functionality.

> ======
> - hosts: all
> remote_user: hyperic
> become_user: root
> become_method: su
> tasks:
>
> # Copy remote file (host.example.com:/tmp/hyperic_agent.tar) into
> # /home/hyperic/hyperic_agent.tar on local machine
>
> -fetch:
> src: /tmp/hyperic_agent.tar
> dst: /home/hyperic

Fetch module copies/fetch the file from remote host to the Ansible
controller.
So your choices are fetch against host.example.com with a delegate_to
and then do a copy to remote host, use the get_url or the synchronize
module.

> -name: Extract hyperic_agent.tar into /home/hyperic
> unarchive:
> src:/home/hyperic/hyperic_agent.tar
> dst:/home/hyperic/
> remote_src: yes
>
> - name: Install Hyperic
> package: name='hyperic_agent" state=started

package will install software from the repository, you will need to use
the command module to run the script as you would when installing it
manually.

--
Kai Stian Olstad