Role Name

This role installs the VMware vRealize Log Insight agent on your system. You need to already have a VMware vRealize Log Insight setup that can be accessed from both the Ansible control host and the managed node. The agent will be automatically downloaded from the main appliance. It has been created and tested with version 4.7, but it should also work for other 4.x versions of vRealize Log Insight.

Requirements

You need Ansible version 2.5 or higher. For Debian servers, as mentioned in the apt module documentation, you also need either python-apt (python 2) or python3-apt (python 3). Not all operating systems are supported, so please check the vRealize Log Insight server OS compatibility list.

Role Variables

This role has variables in two places: defaults/main.yml and vars. You only need to change the user-configurable variables in defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

You need to have an external VMware vRealize Log Insight appliance installed and running. The managed machine must be able to connect to the vRLI appliance.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - piwi3910.vmware_loginsight

License

MIT

Author Information

You can reach out to me on GitHub (https://github.com/piwi3910). I welcome all feedback!