Red Hat Ansible Automation. Simple, agentless IT automation technology. Red Hat ® Ansible ® Automation is automation software powered by Red Hat Ansible Engine—an execution engine with hundreds of modules that can automate all aspects of IT environments and processes—and Red Hat Ansible Tower—a management interface that can integrate with other services. I am having trouble with installing sophos on windows 10 using ansible. I tried both winchocolatey and winpackage. Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase help. Ansible Galaxy as a role code host is a no-go as the roles will be proprietary to a fintech user, and of very little use to anyone else. $ sudo su $ cd /path/to/playbook $ ansible-playbook letsencrypt.yml -vault-password-file.vault After an initial manuel play the automated certificate cycle for your private network is finished. Note: When deploying to Sophos UTM better split the initial play with -t. In Ansible var terms, you could just as validly have used: sophosavdisablefanotify: no sophosavpreferfanotify: yes But of course, command output is going to be a string, as you noted. So you need to convert it to Boolean to compare it properly.
Short post to learn how to install and uninstall Sophos Antivirus in Linux.
Sophos is a well-known antivirus for Windows, Linux, Mac platforms. Sophos also offers different security solutions along with antivirus. In this post we walk through the install, check and remove Sophos antivirus on Linux systems. You can download Sophos antivirus for Linux for free here.
How to install Sophos Antivirus in Linux
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You can transfer the installer downloaded on a laptop or desktop on your Linux server. Or you can use tools like wget to download the installer directly on your Linux server. You can get a Linux installer link from your account on a website.
You will be having Sophos Antivirus with install.sh script within. For non-interactive setup executive script with below switches and you are good to go –
Antivirus is successfully installed on your server.
Check current status of Sophos Antivirus
Antivirus runs with service named sav-protect. So you can use normal Linux service status command to check the status of AV service.
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You can see the recent two activities as a successful scheduled scan run and virus definition update in the last log lines.
How to uninstall Sophos Antivirus in Linux
Run uninstall.sh script located at /opt/sophos-av to uninstall Sophos Antivirus.
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And AV is un-installed. You can confirm by checking status again which will result in an error.