Password-less host-profiles.xml file based robot deployment

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Need for example deployment information for passwordless robot deployment using XML method in UIM.

Environment

• UIM 23.4 CU1+
• automated_deployment_engine
• robot

Resolution

CU1 or above for 23.4 is needed. 

The following will need to be update depending on their presence:

   <isPasswordLess>true</isPasswordLess>
   <privateKey>Complete key file content</privateKey>
   <passPhrase>Passphrase</passPhrase>

Key data much be converted to rsa format.

If a pass phrase is not used, than the line should not be included in the host-profiles.xml file.

example usage:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hosts>
<host>
<profile>CentOS</profile>
<arch>64</arch>
<hostname>"ip of host to deploy to"</hostname>
<username>root</username>
<isPasswordLess>true</isPasswordLess>
<privateKey>-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
AlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPH
aNumberHaShAlPHa................................................
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......................EXAMPLE KEY DATA..........................
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AlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPH
aNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumberHaShAlPHaNumber
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

</privateKey>
<passPhrase>"my phrase"</passPhrase>
<domain>uim_domain</domain>
<hubip>"hub ip"</hubip>
<hub>primary_hub</hub>
<hubrobotname>primary</hubrobotname>
<hubport>48002</hubport>
<robotname>"my_robot_name"</robotname>
<tempdir>/opt/tmp</tempdir>
</host>
</hosts>

Additional Information

Example commands run to process private key:

• Generate the key
  
     ssh-keygen

• Add the local system to the key
  
     ssh-copy-id root@systemnameprocessrunon

• convert to rsa:

     ssh-keygen -p -m PEM -f /root/.ssh/id_rsa

The id_rsa file will contain the private key data needed


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