Description:

When installing InfoScale using Ansible it may be required to provide a Patch to support the Operating System version. This can be accomplished by including the patch repository in the playbook.

The following error is displayed when the OS requires a minimum patch.

Error:

check_must_have_patch: Required InfoScale patch: infoscale-rhel8.3_x86_64-Patch-7.4.1.2500

Example playbook tasks with included patch repo list variable.

  - name: InfoScale Facters
    veritas_infoscale:
     module: site_facters
    register: facts

  - name: 'Install InfoScale'
    veritas_infoscale:
      module: yum
      repository_name: 'InfoScale741'
      repository_baseurl: 'http://<server>/7.4.1/dvd1-redhatlinux/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/'
      gpgcheck: 0
      gpgkey: 'http://<server>/7.4.1/dvd1-redhatlinux/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale7'
      product: ENTERPRISE
      product_version: "7.4.1"
      ignore_patchid_check: 0
      patch_repo_list: ["http://<server>/7.4.1.2500/rpms/"]
      facters: "{{ groups['all'] |map('extract', hostvars, ['facts','infoscale_facts'])| select()|list }}"
      state: present

If you receive the following error during the patch install you will need to import the patch GPG key.

Failed to install patches of the following repos:['ansible_patch_repo1']\nAnsbile logs are saved at:/opt/VRTS/install/ansible/logs/ansible_play_20210831063551/

The following task will import the patch GPG key using the rpm_key Ansible module.

  - name: 'Import GPG Key for InfoScale Patch'
    ansible.builtin.rpm_key:
     state: present
     key: ' http://<server>/7.4.1.2500/rpms/RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale7'
 

Complete playbook with rpm GPG import

---
- hosts: prod
  gather_facts: true
  any_errors_fatal: true
  tasks:

  - name: 'Import GPG Key for InfoScale Patch'
    ansible.builtin.rpm_key:
     state: present
     key: ' http://<server>/7.4.1.2500/rpms/RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale7'

  - name: InfoScale Facters
    veritas_infoscale:
     module: site_facters
    register: facts

  - name: 'Install InfoScale'
    veritas_infoscale:
      module: yum
      repository_name: 'InfoScale741'
      repository_baseurl: 'http://<server>/7.4.1/dvd1-redhatlinux/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/'
      gpgcheck: 0
      gpgkey: 'http://<server>/7.4.1/dvd1-redhatlinux/rhel8_x86_64/rpms/RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale7'
      product: ENTERPRISE
      product_version: "7.4.1"
      ignore_patchid_check: 0
      patch_repo_list: ["http://<server>/7.4.1.2500/rpms/"]
      facters: "{{ groups['all'] |map('extract', hostvars, ['facts','infoscale_facts'])| select()|list }}"
      state: present

Additionally, we can install the latest InfoScale patch available in the same playbook using the following two tasks.

  - name: InfoScale Facters (II)
    veritas_infoscale:
     module: site_facters
    register: facts

  - name: "Patch Upgrade”
    veritas_infoscale:
     module: patchupgrade
     ignore_patchid_check: 1
     patch_repo_list: ["http://<server>/7.4.1.2800/rpms/"]
     facters: "{{ groups['all'] |map('extract', hostvars, ['facts','infoscale_facts'])| select()|list }}"
     state: present