Ansible Role: cups

Installs CUPS, installs necessary PPDs and installs printers and classes on CUPS

Install and configure CUPS

• Installs cups and cups-pdf
• Accounts defined in cups_lpadmin_users will be added to lpadmin group to administrate CUPS.
• Installs cups-lpd if variables allow (see below):
  • Creates a user account which will run the cups-lpd process.
  • Installs xinetd to run cups-lpd as a service. Uses the cups-lpd template file to create the final xinetd config.
• Configuring CUPS:
  • If templates for cupsd.conf, cups-browsed.conf and snmp.conf are provided they'll be built and copied over
  • If SSL certs are provided it'll copy them over to the proper location.

Install PPDs

• Creates /opt/share/ppd where CUPS looks for PPDs that are manually copied over.
• Adds OpenPrinting Repo.
• Install Ricoh OpenPrinting Package - openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh
  • Also unzip the PPDs it installs as the package installs them as gzip files in /opt/OpenPrinting-Ricoh/ppds/Ricoh
• Installs HPLIP:
  • Also installs the HP proprietary plugin using an except script.
• Copies over PPDs from the folder if specified in cups_ppd_files_to_be_copied to /opt/share/ppd

Install Printers

• Any printers defined to be removed will be removed first.
• Install Printers listed in the cups_printer_list variable and then installs classes listed in the cups_class_list
  • See cups_printer_list and cups_class_list to see how to define each printer and class object in the variable cups_printer_list and cups_class_list respectively.
  • This uses the cups_lpadmin module. There's documentation/comments within it on how it can be used.
  • cups_lpadmin is a direct copy from HP41.ansible-modules-extra/system/cups_lpadmin. Once it's merged upstream, it'll be removed from here.

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.1
• Guest machine: Debian
  • stretch
  • jessie
  • wheezy
• Guest machine: Ubuntu
  • xenial
  • trusty
  • precise
• Guest machine: Redhat/CentOS
  • 7.X

Possible additional tasks that are not part of this role's responsibilities.

• Opening the necessary CUPS ports - 515(LPR), 631(IPP/IPPS), 9100(direct IP) through the firewall.
  • If you'd like to use debops.ferm you can use/modify cups__debops_ferm_dependent_rules (defined in defaults) to pass through to debops.ferm.

Default Variables that can be overridden or used as-is when using this role:

CUPS install and config:

• cups_lpadmin_users: List of users that must be added to cups admin (lpadmin) group. Default=root
• cups_lpd: Whether to install and setup cups-lpd - Default=True
• cups_sysadmins_email: The email that'll be used to build the cupsd.conf template - Default=sysadmins@ansible_fqdn
• cups__debops_ferm_dependent_rules: Default simple rules to open up ports (515, 631, 9100) through firewall that can be referenced when using debops.ferm role.
• /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd
  • cups_lpd_usn: The username with which it'll run the cups-lpd process (through xinetd) - Default=cupslpd
• Optional templates:
  • They could've been setup as a simple file copy but accessing and adding ansible variables into it will not be possible. With this ansible_managed, ansible_fqdn, etc are accessible. The templates could also be simple text files with no variable declaration and it'll get copied over.
  • cups_cupsd_conf_template: For /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
  • cups_cups_browsed_conf_template: For /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf
  • cups_snmp_conf_template: For /etc/cups/snmp.conf

Installation and copying of PPDs:

• cups_ppd_files_to_be_copied: The folder to copy all .ppd files from - Default=None
• cups_hplip: Should it install HPLIP - Default=True
• cups_ricoh_openprinting: Should it install OpenPrinting-Ricoh drivers/PPDs - Default=True
• cups_openprinting_apt_required: This is defined as a ternary. It controls if the OpenPrinting APT key and repo is added based on Ricoh drivers are being installed or not. It can be easily overriden to your value.
• cups_openprinting_apt_key_id: The APT key id to obtain from keyserver below. Default=24CBF5474CFD1E2F
• cups_openprinting_key_server: The keyserver to acquire the key from for the below repo - Default=keyserver.ubuntu.com
• cups_openprinting_repo: The OpenPrinting Repo to add - Default="deb http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/debian/ lsb3.2 main"

Installation of Printers and classes:

• cups_printer_uri_prefix: A URI prefix for any filters on top of the URI - Default=""
• cups_printer_report_ipp_supplies: When printer object has no report_ipp_supply_levels attribute this value is used - Default=True
• cups_printer_report_snmp_supplies: When printer object has no report_snmp_supply_levels attribute this value is used. - Default=True
• cups_printer_is_shared: When printer object has no shared attribute this value is used - Default=True
• cups_class_is_shared: When the class object has no shared attribute this value is used - Default=True
• cups_printer_list: A list of hashes that contain printer information needed to install them. Please check cups_lpadmin module and how cups_printer_list variable is used.
• cups_class_list: A list of hashes that contain class information needed to install them. Please check cups_lpadmin module and how cups_class_list variable is used.
• cups_purge_all_printers_and_classes: Should the cups_lpadmin module purge/delete all printers before continuing.
• cups_printers_and_classes_to_be_removed: Printers and classes you would like to specifically remove.

Variables related to operation of the role and general CUPS setup:

• cups_packages_to_install: The CUPS packages to install. This can be overridden for a specific package version if needed - Default=cups, cups-pdf
• cups_xinetd_location: The location of xinet.d files - Default=/etc/xinetd.d
• cups_tmp_location: Temp location that this role uses for copying files and running scripts. Location is created if it doesn't exist - Default=/tmp/cups-ansible
• cups_admin_grp: The group that has admin access to CUPS. This is referenced when adding users (if defined) to CUPS admin roles - Default=lpadmin
• cups_services: The CUPS service(s) that is referenced when starting and stopping CUPS service(s) for configuration purposes - Default=cups
• cups_etc_location: etc location of CUPS config - Default=/etc/cups
• cups_etc_files_perms_owner: Owner of files placed by this role under cups_etc_location - Default=root
• cups_etc_files_perms_grp: Group membership of files placed by this role under cups_etc_location - Default=lp
• cups_etc_files_mode: File mode of files placed by this role under cups_etc_location - Default=0644
• cups_expect_pkgs: The expect related packages that are installed for unattended installations of different expect scripts within this role - Default=expect, python-pexpect
• cups_ppd_shared_location: The standard shared location where PPDs can be placed and CUPS will pick them up - Default=/opt/share/ppd
• cups_ricoh_ppd_location: The location where Ricoh PPDs from OpenPrinting are installed - Default=/opt/OpenPrinting-Ricoh/ppds/Ricoh