first cut at a serial console role for rhel7/fedora

playbooks/manual/sign-vault.yml

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
   - base
   - rkhunter
   - sigul/server
+  - serial-console
 
   tasks:
   - include: "{{ tasks }}/motd.yml"

roles/serial-console/files/serial-getty@.service

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#  This file is part of systemd.
+#
+#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Serial Getty on %I
+Documentation=man:agetty(8) man:systemd-getty-generator(8)
+Documentation=http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html
+BindsTo=dev-%i.device
+After=dev-%i.device systemd-user-sessions.service plymouth-quit-wait.service
+After=rc-local.service
+
+# If additional gettys are spawned during boot then we should make
+# sure that this is synchronized before getty.target, even though
+# getty.target didn't actually pull it in.
+Before=getty.target
+IgnoreOnIsolate=yes
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --keep-baud 115200,38400,9600 %I $TERM
+Type=idle
+Restart=always
+UtmpIdentifier=%I
+TTYPath=/dev/%I
+TTYReset=yes
+TTYVHangup=yes
+KillMode=process
+IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
+SendSIGHUP=yes
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=getty.target

roles/serial-console/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#
+# This role sets up serial console on ttyS0
+#
+- name: check for grub serial setup
+  command: cat /etc/grub2.cfg
+  register: serial
+  always_run: yes
+  changed_when: '1 != 1'
+  tags:
+  - serial-console
+
+- name: set grub to use serial console
+  command: /sbin/grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
+  when: serial is defined and serial.stdout.find("console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200") == -1
+  tags:
+  - serial-console
+
+- name: setup systemd links for getty (S0)
+  copy: src=serial-getty@.service dest=/etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS0.service
+  tags:
+  - serial-console
+
+- name: link template in
+  file: src=/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/serial-getty@ttyS0 dest=/etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS1.service state=link
+  tags:
+  - serial-console
+
+- name: start and enable
+  service: name=serial-getty@ttyS0 enabled=yes state=started
+  tags:
+  - serial-console