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v4.2.1
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Automation Controller Administration Guide v4.2.1
1. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Controller Licensing, Updates, and Support
1.1. Support
1.2. Trial / Evaluation
1.3. Subscription Types
1.4. Node Counting in Licenses
1.5. Attaching Subscriptions
1.6. Ansible Automation Platform Component Licenses
2. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting the Controller
3. Custom 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. 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. Container and Instance Groups
8.1. Instance Groups
8.2. Container Groups
9. Topology Viewer
10. Controller Logfiles
11. Logging and Aggregation
11.1. Loggers
11.2. Set Up Logging
11.3. Troubleshoot Logging
12. Metrics
12.1. Set up Prometheus
13. Secret handling and connection security
13.1. Secret Handling
13.2. Connection Security
14. Security Best Practices
14.1. General best practices
14.2. Understand the architecture of Ansible and the controller
14.3. Granting access
14.4. Available resources
15. The
awx-manage
Utility
15.1. Inventory Import
15.2. Cleanup of old data
15.3. Cluster management
15.4. Token and session management
15.5. Analytics gathering
16. Controller Configuration
16.1. Authentication
16.2. Jobs
16.3. System
16.4. User Interface
16.5. License
17. Isolation functionality and variables
18. Token-Based Authentication
18.1. Managing OAuth 2 Applications and Tokens
18.2. Using OAuth 2 Token System for Personal Access Tokens (PAT)
18.3. Application Functions
18.4. Application Token Functions
19. Setting up Social Authentication
19.1. GitHub settings
19.2. Google OAuth2 settings
19.3. Organization and Team Mapping
20. Setting up Enterprise Authentication
20.1. Azure AD settings
20.2. LDAP Authentication
20.3. RADIUS settings
20.4. SAML settings
20.5. TACACS+ settings
21. Setting up LDAP Authentication
21.1. LDAP Organization and Team Mapping
21.2. Enabling Logging for LDAP
21.3. Referrals
21.4. LDAP authentication performance tips
22. Changing the Default Timeout for Authentication
23. User Authentication with Kerberos
23.1. AD and Kerberos Credentials
23.2. Working with Kerberos Tickets
24. Working with Session Limits
25. Backing Up and Restoring
25.1. Backup/Restore Playbooks
25.2. Backup and Restoration Considerations
25.3. Backup and Restore for Clustered Environments
26. Using Custom Logos in automation controller
27. Usability Analytics and Data Collection
27.1. Automation Analytics
27.2. Details of data collection
28. Troubleshooting the controller
28.1. Error logs
28.2. sosreport
28.3. Problems connecting to your host
28.4. Unable to login to the controller via HTTP
28.5. WebSockets port for live events not working
28.6. Problems running a playbook
28.7. Problems when running a job
28.8. Playbooks aren’t showing up in the “Job Template” drop-down
28.9. Playbook stays in pending
28.10. Cancel a controller job
28.11. Reusing an external database causes installations to fail
28.12. Private EC2 VPC Instances in the controller Inventory
28.13. Troubleshooting “Error: provided hosts list is empty”
29. Controller Tips and Tricks
29.1. Using the Controller CLI Tool
29.2. Changing the Controller Admin Password
29.3. Creating a controller Admin from the commandline
29.4. Setting up a jump host to use with the controller
29.5. View Ansible outputs for JSON commands when using the controller
29.6. Locate and configure the Ansible configuration file
29.7. View a listing of all ansible_ variables
29.8. The ALLOW_JINJA_IN_EXTRA_VARS variable
29.9. Using execution environments
29.10. Configuring the
controllerhost
hostname for notifications
29.11. Launching Jobs with curl
29.12. Dynamic Inventory and private IP addresses
29.13. Filtering instances returned by the dynamic inventory sources in the controller
29.14. Using an unreleased module from Ansible source with the controller
29.15. Using callback plugins with the controller
29.16. Connecting to Windows with winrm
29.17. Importing existing inventory files and host/group vars into the controller
30. Postface
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