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Ansible Tower Administration Guide v3.6.4
1. Tower Licensing, Updates, and Support
1.1. Support
1.2. Trial / Evaluation
1.3. Subscription Types
1.4. Node Counting in Licenses
1.5. Tower Component Licenses
2. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Tower
3. Custom Inventory Scripts
3.1. Writing Inventory Scripts
4. Inventory File Importing
4.1. Custom Dynamic Inventory Scripts
4.2. SCM Inventory Source Fields
5. Multi-Credential Assignment
5.1. Background
5.2. Important Changes
5.3. Launch Time Considerations
5.4. Backwards Compatibility Concerns
5.5. Multi-Vault Credentials
6. Management Jobs
6.1. Removing Old Activity Stream Data
6.2. Cleanup Expired OAuth2 Tokens
6.3. Cleanup Expired Sessions
6.4. Removing Old Job History
7. Clustering
7.1. Setup Considerations
7.2. Install and Configure
7.3. Status and Monitoring via Browser API
7.4. Instance Services and Failure Behavior
7.5. Job Runtime Behavior
7.6. Deprovision Instances
8. OpenShift Deployment and Configuration
8.1. Tower and OpenShift Basics
8.2. Configuration Options
8.3. Basic Configuration
8.4. Resource Requests and Request Planning
8.5. Database Configuration and Usage
8.6. Backup and Restore
8.7. Upgrading
8.8. Migrating
8.9. Build custom virtual environments
9. Execution Environments
9.1. Instance Groups
9.2. Container Groups
10. Proxy Support
10.1. Configure Known Proxies
10.2. Reverse Proxy
11. Tower Logfiles
12. Tower Logging and Aggregation
12.1. Loggers
12.2. Set Up Logging with Tower
13. Metrics
13.1. Set up Prometheus
14. Secret handling and connection security
14.1. Secret Handling
14.2. Connection Security
15. Security Best Practices
15.1. General best practices
15.2. Understand the architecture of Ansible and Tower
15.3. Granting access
15.4. Available resources
16. Resource Profiling
16.1. Enable resource profiling
17. The
awx-manage
Utility
17.1. Inventory Import
17.2. Cleanup of old data
17.3. Cluster management
17.4. Token and session management
17.5. Analytics gathering
18. Tower Configuration
18.1. Authentication
18.2. Jobs
18.3. System
18.4. User Interface
18.5. License
19. Bubblewrap functionality and variables
20. Token-Based Authentication
20.1. Managing OAuth 2 Applications and Tokens
20.2. Using OAuth 2 Token System for Personal Access Tokens (PAT)
20.3. Application Functions
20.4. Application Token Functions
21. Setting up Social Authentication
21.1. Google OAuth2 Settings
21.2. GitHub OAuth2 Settings
21.3. Organization and Team Mapping
22. Setting up Enterprise Authentication
22.1. Azure Active Directory (AD)
22.2. LDAP Authentication
22.3. RADIUS Authentication Settings
22.4. SAML Authentication Settings
22.5. TACACS+ Authentication Settings
23. Setting up LDAP Authentication
23.1. Referrals
23.2. Enabling Logging for LDAP
23.3. LDAP Organization and Team Mapping
24. Changing the Default Timeout for Authentication
25. User Authentication with Kerberos
25.1. AD and Kerberos Credentials
25.2. Working with Kerberos Tickets
26. Working with Session Limits
27. Backing Up and Restoring Tower
27.1. Backup/Restore Playbooks
27.2. Backup and Restoration Considerations
27.3. Backup and Restore for Clustered Environments
28. Using Custom Logos in Ansible Tower
29. Usability Analytics and Data Collection
29.1. Automation Analytics
29.2. Details of data collection
30. Troubleshooting Tower
30.1. Error logs
30.2. Problems connecting to your host
30.3. Unable to login to Tower via HTTP
30.4. WebSockets port for live events not working
30.5. Problems running a playbook
30.6. Problems when running a job
30.7. Playbooks aren’t showing up in the “Job Template” drop-down
30.8. Playbook stays in pending
30.9. Cancel a Tower job
30.10. Reusing an external database causes installations to fail
30.11. Private EC2 VPC Instances in Tower Inventory
30.12. Troubleshooting “Error: provided hosts list is empty”
31. Tower Tips and Tricks
31.1. Using the Tower CLI Tool
31.2. Changing the Tower Admin Password
31.3. Creating a Tower Admin from the commandline
31.4. Setting up a jump host to use with Tower
31.5. View Ansible outputs for JSON commands when using Tower
31.6. Locate and configure the Ansible configuration file
31.7. View a listing of all ansible_ variables
31.8. Using virtualenv with Ansible Tower
31.9. Configuring the
towerhost
hostname for notifications
31.10. Launching Jobs with curl
31.11. Dynamic Inventory and private IP addresses
31.12. Filtering instances returned by the dynamic inventory sources in Tower
31.13. Using an unreleased module from Ansible source with Tower
31.14. Using callback plugins with Tower
31.15. Connecting to Windows with winrm
31.16. Importing existing inventory files and host/group vars into Tower
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