How to automate adding license key into hazelcast mancenter - bash

Question

I am playing around with hazelcast, using aws cloudformation and ansible to spin up a cluster of two hazelcast nodes + a separate mancenter.
All documentation on the mancenter implies everything must be done manually by a user in a browser. However this is not ideal as we will have many environments and have a hardened ami provided to us every few weeks which we must update existing environment to.
What I am trying to do is create an ansible role that automatically creates the first admin user, and then adds the enterprise license into the mancenter.
I have successfully scripted the user creation (just http for now, baby steps)
- name: Check for first user
uri:
url: "http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/user.do?operation=anyUser&_=1480397059541"
method: GET
return_content: no
register: anyuser
until: anyuser.json["anyUser"] is defined
retries: 10
delay: 5
- name: Register Admin user
uri:
url: "http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/user.do?operation=signUp&username={{ hazelcastmanagement_user }}&password={{ hazelcastmanagement_password }}&confirmpassword={{ hazelcastmanagement_password }}&email={{ hazelcastmanagement_email }}&_=1479951949840"
method: GET
return_content: no
register: result
until: result.json["success"] is defined
retries: 10
delay: 5
when: anyuser.json["anyUser"] == "false"
However I am having trouble successfully orchestrating the update license call.
In a browser, certain calls return the JSESSION ID, and HTTP 200's. When trying to emulate this in ansible however, I am always getting a 302, redirect to the login page.
I have pasted the tasks below that I am attempting.
These task examples do not contain many headers, however I have tried emulating every single header that a browser sends previously but had the same result.
- name: Call to update license unauthorized (returns set_cookie)
uri:
url: "http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/main.do"
method: POST
return_content: yes
body: "operation=savelicense_getLicenceInfo&key={{ hazelcast_license }} "
status_code: 302
register: cookie
- name: Login (302 ok because browser mirrors this result)
uri:
url: "http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/j_spring_security_check"
method: POST
body: "j_username={{ hazelcastmanagement_user }}&j_password={{ hazelcastmanagement_password }}"
return_content: yes
status_code: 302
HEADER_Cookie: "{{cookie.set_cookie}}"
- name: Call to update license authorized
uri:
url: "http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/main.do"
method: POST
return_content: yes
body: "operation=savelicense_getLicenceInfo&key={{ hazelcast_license }}"
HEADER_Cookie: "{{cookie.set_cookie}}"
My ansible task logs are below, -vvvv
Hoping someone else has looked into this previously, could not find any questions related to it elsewhere however.
Ansible Log Output:
TASK [hazelcastmanagement_launch : Call to update license authorized] **********
task path: /app/esg/ansible/roles/hazelcastmanagement_launch/tasks/launch.yml:5
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
hazelcast EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698 )" && echo "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698 )" )
hazelcast PUT /tmp/tmpBbuVj0 TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698/uri
hazelcast EXEC chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698/uri
hazelcast EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S -n -u esg /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-lemxlebthsblahblahblahcevqzkafjdo; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 HTTP_PROXY=proxy.com LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.com no_proxy=proxy.com http_proxy=proxy.com https_proxy=proxy.com NO_PROXY=proxy.com LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698/uri'"'"''
hazelcast EXEC rm -f -r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.07-7077332634698/ > /dev/null 2>&1
ok: [hazelcast] => {"changed": false, "content": "", "content_length": "0", "expires": "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT", "invocation": {"module_args": {"backup": null, "body": "operation=savelicense_getLicenceInfo&key=ENTERPRISELicense12341234123412341234123412341234", "body_format": "raw", "content": null, "creates": null, "delimiter": null, "dest": null, "directory_mode": null, "follow": false, "follow_redirects": "safe", "force": null, "force_basic_auth": false, "group": null, "method": "POST", "mode": null, "owner": null, "password": null, "regexp": null, "remote_src": null, "removes": null, "return_content": true, "selevel": null, "serole": null, "setype": null, "seuser": null, "src": null, "status_code": ["302"], "timeout": 30, "url": "http://internal-esg-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/main.do", "user": null, "validate_certs": true}, "module_name": "uri"}, "location": "http://internal-esg-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/login.jsp;jsessionid=dq0hzdvm2xm91r4h6eyef1l48", "redirected": false, "server": "Jetty(8.y.z-SNAPSHOT)", "set_cookie": "JSESSIONID=dq0hzdvm2xm91r4h6eyef1l48;Path=/mancenter;HttpOnly", "status": 302}
TASK [hazelcastmanagement_launch : Login] **************************************
task path: /app/app/ansible/roles/hazelcastmanagement_launch/tasks/launch.yml:14
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
hazelcast EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843 )" && echo "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843 )" )
hazelcast PUT /tmp/tmpKhOI1y TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843/uri
hazelcast EXEC chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843/uri
hazelcast EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S -n -u app /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-rfxrchqnblahblahblahhvryauidnf; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 HTTP_PROXY=proxy.com8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.com no_proxy=proxy.com http_proxy=proxy.com NO_PROXY=proxy.com LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843/uri'"'"''
hazelcast EXEC rm -f -r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.23-71435275964843/ > /dev/null 2>&1
ok: [hazelcast] => {"changed": false, "content": "", "content_length": "0", "invocation": {"module_args": {"HEADER_Cookie": "JSESSIONID=dq0hzdvm2xm91r4h6eyef1l48;Path=/mancenter;HttpOnly", "backup": null, "body": "j_username=admin&j_password=admin1", "body_format": "raw", "content": null, "creates": null, "delimiter": null, "dest": null, "directory_mode": null, "follow": false, "follow_redirects": "safe", "force": null, "force_basic_auth": false, "group": null, "method": "POST", "mode": null, "owner": null, "password": null, "regexp": null, "remote_src": null, "removes": null, "return_content": true, "selevel": null, "serole": null, "setype": null, "seuser": null, "src": null, "status_code": ["302"], "timeout": 30, "url": "http://internal-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/j_spring_security_check", "user": null, "validate_certs": true}, "module_name": "uri"}, "location": "http://internal-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/login.jsp?login_error=true", "redirected": false, "server": "Jetty(8.y.z-SNAPSHOT)", "status": 302}
TASK [hazelcastmanagement_launch : Call to update license authorized] **********
task path: /app/app/ansible/roles/hazelcastmanagement_launch/tasks/launch.yml:23
ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
hazelcast EXEC ( umask 22 && mkdir -p "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151 )" && echo "$( echo /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151 )" )
hazelcast PUT /tmp/tmpAbC8uL TO /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151/uri
hazelcast EXEC chmod a+r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151/uri
hazelcast EXEC /bin/sh -c 'sudo -H -S -n -u app /bin/sh -c '"'"'echo BECOME-SUCCESS-cciaazzdblahblahblahdufmpuhe; LANG=en_US.UTF-8 HTTP_PROXY=proxy.com LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 HTTPS_PROXY=proxy.com no_proxy=proxy.com http_proxy=proxy.com https_proxy=proxy.com NO_PROXY=proxy.comLC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151/uri'"'"''
hazelcast EXEC rm -f -r /tmp/ansible-tmp-1480399947.38-137956022601151/ > /dev/null 2>&1
fatal: [hazelcast]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "content": "", "content_length": "0", "failed": true, "invocation": {"module_args": {"HEADER_Cookie": "JSESSIONID=dq0hzdvm2xm91r4h6eyef1l48;Path=/mancenter;HttpOnly", "backup": null, "body": "operation=savelicense_getLicenceInfo&key=ENTERPRISELicense123412341234123412341234123412341234", "body_format": "raw", "content": null, "creates": null, "delimiter": null, "dest": null, "directory_mode": null, "follow": false, "follow_redirects": "safe", "force": null, "force_basic_auth": false, "group": null, "method": "POST", "mode": null, "owner": null, "password": null, "regexp": null, "remote_src": null, "removes": null, "return_content": true, "selevel": null, "serole": null, "setype": null, "seuser": null, "src": null, "status_code": [200], "timeout": 30, "url": "http://internal-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/main.do", "user": null, "validate_certs": true}, "module_name": "uri"}, "location": "http://internal-aws.elb.amazonaws.com:8080/mancenter/login.jsp", "msg": "Status code was not [200]", "redirected": false, "server": "Jetty(8.y.z-SNAPSHOT)", "status": 302}
EDIT:
Thanks for that solution emre. Using curl was the way to go.
I tried a few more times with the uri ansible module. But no dice... must be something under the hood going on.
Since your curl's hit the nail on the head, I just wrapped this in the ansible command module instead of using the uri module to construct the calls.
I chdir to /tmp to ensure I have write access for the cookie file.
- name: Login to management
shell: "curl -X POST http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/j_spring_security_check -d "j_username={{ hazelcastmanagement_user}}" -d "j_password={{ hazelcastmanagement_password }}" -c cookies.file
args:
chdir: /tmp
- name: Login to management
shell: "curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST http://{{ hazelcastmanagement_dns }}:8080/mancenter/main.do?operation=savelicense -d 'key={{ hazelcast_licence }}' -b cookies.file
args:
chdir: /tmp

Answer 1

I don't know about Ansible, but using cUrl you can log in and set the license key as follows:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8083/mancenter/j_spring_security_check -d "j_username=emre" -d "j_password=Password1" -c cookies.file
curl -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -X POST http://localhost:8083/mancenter/main.do?operation=savelicense -d 'key=aaaa' -b cookies.file
Note that you need to log in with an admin user and the license key you provide needs to be correct for the server to return 200.
Edit:
With Hazelcast Management Center version 3.9.3, a new system property to configure the license was introduced. See the release notes for version 3.9.3 and the relevant section on the latest reference manual for details.