I need to create a playbook that will delete files older then X days on a remote share location which has Windows NTFS share permissions. Account that can access the share is AD service account (different then the one used for Ansible). Ansible is Tower version with RedHat as OS. There is no PowerShell host which I can use as intermediary.
There is a win-share-module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/windows/win_share_module.html#ansible-collections-ansible-windows-win-share-module but host that execute module must be Windows not Linux.
There is also ansible.windows.win_powershell module, but for this I have to install PowerShell in Ansible Tower, right?
What would be the best and easiest you would do it?
UPDATE
Let me add that I installed powershell on Linux but when doing this basic test
---
- name: Delete old PowerFlex storage backups
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
connection: local
tasks:
- name: Run basic PowerShell script
ansible.windows.win_powershell:
script: |
echo "Hello World"
I get the error
"module_stderr": "/bin/sh: powershell: command not found\n",
On the other hand when I login to linux CLI, I can enter into PowerShell with pwsh (not powershell), so I guess this module calls different version of PowerShell.
What is a workaround on this?
Thanks.
The win_powershell module is not going to work on your Tower machine. It will only work on windows OS.
Since you need to run this script a linux hosts, you can use shell module, and specify the executable path to wherever pwsh is on your machine. I would use a script for easier development/testing, but you can also use direct commands.
- name: execute pwsh
ansible.builtin.shell: /path/to/Invoke-Script.ps1
args:
executable: /bin/pwsh
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I do have following setup:
a win PC with gitlab-runner installed (working)
a powershell script running on the same PC is starting an application
a gitlab server to connect this local PC and starting the powershell script
Now when starting the powershell script directly from the local PC, the application starts and terminates after done - working as expected. When starting the same powershell script with the gitlab server (yml-file) then I can see that the application has been started (new process in taskmanager) but it is not running as well it never terminates.
When manually end the task I see that gitlab terminates again.
Question:
what could be the root cause?
is it possible to run the powershell script with gitlab-runner? I think there is a way with the command "exec". How does the command looks like when calling the powershell script?
is it possible to run the application not in the background in order to see whats going on?
others?
thanks in advance
I think there is a bug with the gitlab runner on windows.
No matter which shell you configure in the config.toml the runner
will always use cmd.exe for an exec local run.
Specify the --shell argument to override the default cmd.exe shell:
> gitlab-runner exec shell your_job --shell pwsh
If you run this locally in your project, it outputs to .builds/, so add this to your .gitignore because git will see it and think you might want to add a submodule.
I started to write a powershell script to automate the deployment of new Windows 10 PCs.
I've done a script to install the corporate apps and mapping the network folders and printers.
But I have a problem that I must input the admin password for each program I wish to install.
I've searched the internet and all I found was the runas command, I see that is similar to the su of Linux but I can't push the password.
This is how I made the install of all applications:
Set-Content "$DESTINO\program.bat" -value 'msiexec -i C:\progtemp\program.msi /quiet'
Start-Process $DESTINO\program.bat -Wait
Do you know a better method?
The two main ways to run something as an admin automated are as follows:
Create a Scheduled task to run a script, you can choose to run this escalated and store the credentials as required
Create a startup script using powershell (or batch file if you must!)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/dn789190(v=ws.11)
Startup scripts run as the user system which is the highest privilege possible. Be aware that network access may not be available at startup and some things may not be accessible to system on your local network etc.
Highly recommend looking at Chocolatey https://www.chocolatey.org and possibly boxstarter: https://boxstarter.org/
to get you started with some automation and package management.
Microsoft also have a similar technology in early stages:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/
But frankly Chocolatey is an open framework and its well established and mature at this stage.
We are using some custom modules in our Perl automation framework which runs through Jenkin pipeline. Recently we got package not found error for all custom modules while executing test cases in AIX servers as latest Perl version is installed there . So we tried to add "PERL5LIB" in the path as mentioned in document
https://perlmaven.com/how-to-change-inc-to-find-perl-modules-in-non-standard-locations
We added "export PERL5LIB=/home/foobar/code" in /etc/profile of the AIX server and script getting executed without any issue when running from local AIX machine.
Issue:
But we have Jenkin pipeline to execute the scripts in AIX server using ssh. Now when we do SSH to the AIX server in the pipeline script the variables that we have set in /etc/profile does not load and we get package not found error.
Question: How can I load the profile in the AIX server while running it from pipeline? or is there any other way to handle this. Before executing script I want to export PERL5LIB in remote AIX server through pipeline (only once) and the I should not get package not found error.
Below solutions I have tried :
Load the /etc/profile: ssh AIX server ./etc/profile (using dot since source not working in AIX)
Adding this line "export PERL5LIB=/home/foobar/code" in .ssh/environment in AIX server and set PermitUserEnviorment yes
Appreciate any help on this.
Assign values to variables the usual way:
ssh user#host 'export PERL5LIB=/somepath; echo $PERL5LIB'
user#hosts's password:
/somepath
or
ssh user#host '. /etc/profile.local; echo $PERL5LIB'
user#hosts's password:
/somepath/from/profile
Edit:
If you have to execute multiple commands, create a script and upload it to the target computer, for example:
SCRIPTNAME=/tmp/$$.$RANDOM.script
scp myscript.sh user#host:"$SCRIPTNAME"
ssh user#host "$SCRIPTNAME"
This is solved with below changes.
Step 1: Edit ~/.ssh/environment. Add variable PERL5LIB="/path of the module/"
Step 2: Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Change variable PermitUserEnvironment from no to yes. Uncomment it if commented. This will enable access of environment variables to SSH.
Step 3: Restart SSHD service. (This is imp. I had tried step 1 and 2 before also but not restarted the service so solution was not working)
We can create a script and run it before executing automation test from pipeline.
I want to copy the file to a network drive using build agent (powershell or cmd (Build Steps)).
P:
# or
cd P:\foolder\
# ...
But the commands don't work. Build log: "Disk P not found".
The disk is connected via windows. When running from windows, the commands work.
I assume java/BuildAgent doesn't have rights. But my user has rights. And java, and BuildAgent runs under my user.
Please, do not offer FTP
Open command prompt as Administrator
bind your drive again using below command
net use x: \\10.1.2.3\Share
again do the same in Command prompt without administrator (if its not bounded)
I have a very simple command in powershell to start SSH tunnels:
ssh -N -L 28777:localhost:28778 myapp-db
What's the simplest way to make this a service, so I can run:
start-service db-tunnel
etc on Windows 10? I've read an old article on doing this and it involves using C#, which seems way too complex for such a simple task.
PowerShell is not necessary. Here's one way:
Install the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package somewhere and get the files instsrv.exe and srvany.exe.
Use srvany.exe to create the service using the ssh.exe program and its parameters using the information in Microsoft help article 137890.
For example:
instsrv "SSH Server" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Resource Kit Tools\srvany.exe"
Of course, specify whatever service name you want and the path and filename of srvany.exe.
Next, use the registry editor to go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SSH Tunnel (or whatever you named the service) in the registry and create a Parameters subkey. In the Parameters subkey create an Application value (REG_SZ type):
C:\Program Files (x86)\ssh\ssh.exe
(or whatever - the path and filename to your ssh executable).
You can also create the values AppDirectory (REG_SZ) to specify the starting directory for the executable, and AppParameters (REG_SZ) to specify the parameters to the executable; e.g.:
-N -L 28777:localhost:28778 myapp-db
You can substitute the use of the NSSM tool mentioned by BenH in his comment if you prefer that tool and are allowed to use third-party software.
To make something into a service, you would need to compile your script into an executable. This can be done via PS2EXE.
What may work just as well for you is making a function in powershell, Start-DbTunnel, and making that import into your powershell session on start. You can do this by loading functions in the foloowing path:
$PSprofilePath\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
or for the ISE
$PSprofilePath\Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1
Inside those files, I have
$PSprofilePath = "C:\Users\cknutson\Documents\WindowsPowershell"
$items = Get-ChildItem "$PSprofilePath\functions"
#Set-Location "$PSprofilePath\functions"
$items | ForEach-Object {
. $_.FullName
}
Set-Location C:\
Any scripts containing functions, or otherwise will be run each time you open a powershell host.