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October 17th, 2022 08:00
Best way to automate rotation of admin password on Isilon using Ansible
We leverage Hashicorp Vault, Jenkins, and Ansible. I'd like to be able to run an ansible playbook which changes the password for that local user. It doesn't seem like the Powerscale modules provided by Dell include this capability, so looking for any other options anyone might have used to automate this?


travelerdb
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October 18th, 2022 06:00
Hi Josh,
The Dell modules do not allow you to set the admin password from what i can see, pls correct me if that's not right. That leaves me with determining if it's possible to rotate that admin password using direct rest api's or some other method? I am able to ssh into the Isilon array and use passwd to change it, however, passwd expects current password, new pass and re-enter new pass and i haven't been able to get Isilon (zsh) to recognize the values being passed as it doesn't seem to recognize --stdin option which means it wants it to run interactively
DELL-Josh Cr
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October 18th, 2022 06:00
Hi,
Thanks for your question. Did you find our Anisble modules for Isilion? https://dell.to/3Vz6iHY and https://dell.to/3VFeYN8
Let us know if you have any additional questions.
DELL-Josh Cr
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October 18th, 2022 07:00
You are correct, I don’t see a way to change the password that way.
travelerdb
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October 18th, 2022 08:00
So.... how does one programmatically rotate the password on Isilon?
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October 18th, 2022 09:00
I am not seeing any official way to do it through scripting, just manually.