README.md

ad_group_conflicts Role

The ad_group_conflicts role creates CSV and HTML reports that list all Active Directory groups with Unix Group ID (GID) numbers assigned to other Unix-enabled groups.

Requirements

The role requires the community.windows collection be installed on the control node (the machine that runs Ansible). See community.windows for how to perform installation.

The role gathers information about Active Directory objects. For Ansible to communicate to a Windows host and use Windows modules, the Windows host must meet some requirements. See Connecting to a Windows Host for guidance. See Setting up a Windows Host and Windows Remote Management for further details.

Variables

All of the variables shown below have a default value but can be overridden to suit your environment. Variable overriding can be done in playbooks, inventories, from the command line using the -e switch with the ansible-playbook command, or from Ansible Tower and AWX. See Ansbile documentation for further information.

Active Directory

See Active Directory variables in the common role.

Report parameters

• ad_group_conflicts_base_container: By default, these reports are created using the default domain as the base container. With this parameter you can specify a different base container to begin the search.

  Default value is:

  ad_group_conflicts_base_container: ''

Report generation

Report generation variable defaults for all roles are set by variables in the common role and can be overriden for all roles by setting the appropriate common role variable. See common role report generation variables in the common role.

• ad_group_conflicts_reports_generate enables report generation.

  Default value is:

  ad_group_conflicts_reports_generate: "{{ reports_generate }}"

• ad_group_conflicts_reports_backup enables backup of prior reports by renaming them with the date and time they were generated so that the latest reports do not override the previous reports.

  Default value is:

  ad_group_conflicts_reports_backup: "{{ reports_backup }}"
  

• ad_group_conflicts_reports_host sets the host on which the reports should be generated.

  Default value is:

  ad_group_conflicts_reports_host: "{{ reports_host }}"

• ad_group_conflicts_reports is a list of dictionaries that define the reports to be generated. The default value creates a CSV and HTML report using the templates included with the ad_group_conflicts role.

  Default value is:

  ad_group_conflicts_reports:
    - src:  ad_group_conflicts_report.csv.j2
      dest: ad_group_conflicts_report.csv
    - src:  ad_group_conflicts_report.html.j2
      dest: ad_group_conflicts_report.html

  The src key for each list entry is the report template file on the Ansible control node. With a relative path Ansible will look in the ad_group_conflicts role template directory. Use a absolute path to speciy templates located elsewhere on the Ansible control node.

  The dest key for each list entry is the report file on the machine specified in ad_group_conflicts_reports_host. If ad_group_conflicts_reports_host is set to the Ansible control node a relative path can be used and it will be relative to the directory from which the playbook is run. For other hosts, an absolute path must be used. In either case the containing directory must exist.

Usage

Below is a sample playbook using the ad_group_conflicts role.

---

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: false

  # The variables you would most likely want/need to override have been included
  vars:

    # Active Directory
    client_domain: sample.net
    client_username: user
    client_password: pass

    # Report parameters
    ad_group_conflicts_base_container: 'CN=Users,DC=Sample,DC=net'

    # Reports
    ad_group_conflicts_reports_generate: true
    ad_group_conflicts_reports_backup: false

  roles:
    - name: oneidentity.authentication_services.ad_group_conflicts

For a copy of this and other sample playbooks see examples