Ansible Tower Administration Guide¶
Thank you for your interest in Ansible Tower by Red Hat, the open source IT orchestration engine. Whether sharing operations tasks with your team or integrating with Ansible through the Tower REST API, Tower provides powerful tools to make your automation life easier.
The Ansible Tower Administration Guide documents the administration of Ansible Tower through custom scripts, management jobs, and more. Written for DevOps engineers and administrators, the Ansible Tower Administration Guide assumes a basic understanding of the systems requiring management with Tower’s easy-to-use graphical interface. This document has been updated to include information for the latest release of Ansible Tower 2.4.4.
Ansible Tower Version 2.4.4; February 22, 2016; https://access.redhat.com/
- Ansible Tower Administration Guide
- 1. Tower Licensing, Updates, and Support
- 2. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Tower
- 3. Custom Inventory Scripts
- 4. Management Jobs
- 5. High Availability
- 6. Proxy Support
- 7. Tower Logfiles
- 8. The tower-manage Utility
- 9. LDAP Integration
- 10. Setting up Authentication
- 11. Changing the Default Timeout for Authentication
- 12. User Authentication with Kerberos
- 13. Working with Session Limits
- 14. Backing Up and Restoring Tower
- 15. Using Custom Logos in Ansible Tower
- 16. Troubleshooting Tower
- 16.1. Error logs
- 16.2. Problems connecting to your host
- 16.3. Changing the WebSockets port for live events
- 16.4. Problems running a playbook
- 16.5. Problems when running a job
- 16.6. Playbooks aren’t showing up in the “Job Template” drop-down
- 16.7. Playbook stays in pending
- 16.8. Cancel a Tower job
- 16.9. Reusing an external HA database causes installations to fail
- 16.10. PRoot functionality and variables
- 16.11. Private EC2 VPC Instances in Tower Inventory
- 16.12. Troubleshooting “Error: provided hosts list is empty”
- 17. Tower Tips and Tricks
- 17.1. Using the Tower CLI Tool
- 17.2. Changing the Tower Admin Password
- 17.3. Setting up a jump host to use with Tower
- 17.4. View Ansible outputs for JSON commands when using Tower
- 17.5. Locate and configure the Ansible configuration file
- 17.6. View a listing of all ansible_ variables
- 17.7. Launching Jobs with curl
- 17.8. Dynamic Inventory and private IPs
- 17.9. Filtering instances returned by the dynamic inventory sources in Tower
- 17.10. Using an unreleased module from Ansible source with Tower
- 17.11. Using callback plugins with Tower
- 17.12. Connecting to Windows with winrm
- 17.13. Importing existing inventory files and host/group vars into Tower
- 18. Usability Analytics and Data Collection
- 19. Postface
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