splunk-common

Installation and basic configuration of Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk Enterprise version updates can be installed by incrementing the splunk_version variable and its corresponding splunk_build variable.

LDAP authentication with Microsoft Active Directory can be configured with additional variables.

Requirements

pyOpenSSL - To generate self-signed x509 certificate.

Role Variables

Variable	Default
splunk_version	7.1.3
splunk_build	51d9cac7b837
splunk_common_enable_ssl	True
splunk_common_http_port	8443
splunk_common_admin_user	admin
splunk_common_admin_passwd	ThisShouldBeLong&Complex
splunk_common_admin_salt	c0be578b4b8d82fa
splunk_secret	SDWQAIOvoISFDrb2...
enable_ldap	False
auth_settings_name	ActiveDirectory
user_base_dn
group_base_dn
bind_dn
bind_dn_password
ldap_host
ldap_port	389
splunk_admin_ad_group
splunk_power_ad_group
splunk_user_ad_group

Please remember to set your own values for splunk_common_admin_passwd, splunk_common_admin_salt and splunk_secret, ideally encrypting them with ansible-vault.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Example playbook:

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: andrewmackett.splunk_common, splunk_version: 7.1.3, splunk_build: 51d9cac7b837 }

There's also a Vagrantfile that you can use to start up a local test server.

License

MIT

Author Information

https://github.com/andrewmackett