win install in file mode does not copy the file?

[FlorianHeigl]

i might be doing something wrong -
but I cannot find anything that would transfer the agent installer file from the control node to the remote system.

is there?

[carlosmmatos]

@FlorianHeigl - Check out this discussion here.. let me know if this helps

If this is for windows - then just replace ansible.builtin.copy with ansible.windows.win_copy

[carlosmmatos]

@FlorianHeigl did this help?

[FlorianHeigl]

@carlosmmatos hi, I had already hacked in some win_copy usage the night I ran into the issue?
I had to make my install work with ansible 2.9, so it's a bit hard to provide a good-looking PR.

If you want I can provide the right snippet here.

[carlosmmatos]

@FlorianHeigl Thanks for the response back.

You're always more than welcome to submit a PR, but if it's for the functionality of simply copying the installer, then it's not going to get merged in. In that thread above I linked, the reason for this is that we don't want to enforce a method of deployment when using the local file installation option. We're more than happy to install the falcon sensor locally, but it's up to the customer how they would like to get that sensor distributed (ie, via Ansbile copy, NFS, Samba/CIFS, etc). It's easy enough to just add a pre-task to your playbook prior to running the falcon_install role.

[FlorianHeigl]

Got it. closing my issue accordingly.