PVWA Ansible Role

This Ansible Role will deploy and install CyberArk Password Vault Web Access including the pre-requisites, application, hardening and connect to an existing Vault environment.

Requirements

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• Windows 2016 installed on the remote host
• WinRM open on port 5986 (not 5985) on the remote host
• Pywinrm is installed on the workstation running the playbook
• The workstation running the playbook must have network connectivity to the remote host
• The remote host must have Network connectivity to the CyberArk vault and the repository server
  • 443 port outbound
  • 445 port inbound
  • 1858 port outbound
• Administrator access to the remote host
• PVWA CD image

Role Variables

These are the variables used in this playbook:

Flow Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
pvwa_prerequisites	no	false	Install PVWA pre-requisites
pvwa_install	no	false	Install PVWA
pvwa_hardening	no	false	Apply PVWA hardening
pvwa_registration	no	false	Connect PVWA to the Vault
pvwa_clean	no	false	N/A

Deployment Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Comments
vault_ip	yes	None	Vault IP address to perform registration
vault_port	no	1858	Vault port
vault_username	no	administrator	Vault username to perform registration
vault_password	yes	None	Vault password to perform registration
dr_vault_ip	no	None	Vault DR IP address to perform registration
accept_eula	yes	No	Accepting EULA condition (Yes/No)
pvwa_url	yes	None	URL of registered PVWA
pvwa_zip_file_path	yes	None	CyberArk PVWA installation Zip file package path
pvwa_auth_type	yes	cyberark;ldap	Authentication Type
pvwa_iis_app_folder	yes	C:\inetpub\wwwroot\PasswordVault	IIS Application Folder
pvwa_app_name	yes	PasswordVault	Web Application Name
pvwa_installation_drive	no	C:	Destination installation drive

Dependencies

None

Usage

The role consists of a number of different tasks which can be enabled or disabled for the particular run.

pvwa_install

This task will deploy the PVWA to required folder and validate successful deployment.

pvwa_hardening

This task will run the PVWA hardening process.

pvwa_registration

This task perform registration with active Vault.

pvwa_validateparameters

This task will validate which PVWA steps have already occurred on the server to prevent repetition.

pvwa_clean

This task will clean the configuration (inf) files from the installation, delete the PVWA installation logs from the Temp folder and delete the cred files.

Example Playbook

Below is an example of how you can incorporate this role into an Ansible playbook to call the PVWA role with several parameters:

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- include_role:
    name: pvwa
  vars:
    pvwa_install: true
    pvwa_hardening: true
    pvwa_clean: true

Running the playbook:

For an example of how to incorporate this role into a complete playbook, please see the pas-orchestrator example.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0