topic Automating GAIA API installation with Ansible in Ansible

Automating GAIA API installation with Ansible

DemisT — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:31:10 GMT

Hi all, I'm trying to make a playbook to automate the installation of the GAIA API on a Check Point (virtual) appliance as per sk143612.

Here are the steps in the article:

Download the engine package to your machine.
Open the tgz file: tar -zxvf Check_Point_gaia_api.tgz
Run the installer: ./install_gaia_api.sh
Run gaia_api status to verify it is up and running

I created an ansible playbook:

- name: Create gaia_api directory

file:

path: /var/log/gaia_api

state: directory

- name: SCP and extract gaia_api package

unarchive:

src: Check_Point_gaia_api.tgz

dest: /var/log/gaia_api

mode: u+x,g+x,o+x

- name: Install gaia_api

raw: sh /var/log/gaia_api/install_gaia_api.sh

ignore_errors: yes

It works, up until the last task. Doing a gaia_api status shows: "-bash: /bin/gaia_api: No such file or directory"

I also tried the following:

- name: Install gaia_api

command: /var/log/gaia_api/install_gaia_api.sh

args:

executable: /bin/bash

even tried copying the install_gaia_api.sh script to my Ansible machine and using the script module:

- name: Install gaia_api

script: install_gaia_api.sh

Any suggestions?

Re: Automating GAIA API installation with Ansible

PhoneBoy — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:58:16 GMT

You're not doing exactly what the installation instructions say to do, which is run the installation script in the current working directory (e.g. using ./install_gaia_api.sh).
I recommend running the commands manually from an ssh session precisely as you're trying to do it from the Ansible playbook and debug it from there.

Re: Automating GAIA API installation with Ansible

DemisT — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 20:08:24 GMT

Hi Dameon,

Thanks! figured it out.

Changed the task to:

- name: Install gaia_api

command: sh ./install_gaia_api.sh

args:

chdir: /var/log/gaia_api