diff --git a/configure.sh b/configure.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..26650a7d14de6e6ab0d296ed0bc25b3b6b65e72b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configure.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+if [ -f group_vars/all/variables.yml ]; then
+ echo "Variables file (group_vars/all/variables.yml) is configure manually. please take a look if everything is correct and move to next step"
+ cat group_vars/all/variables.yml
+else
+ echo "set FQDN which will be used to access the soctools services. (the DNS record should already be in place.)"
+ read -p 'soctoolsproxy: ' soctoolsproxy
+ if [ -z $soctoolsproxy ]; then
+ echo "Error: Empty string for soctoolsproxy! exiting..."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ echo
+ echo "Organization's top level domain (will be used as organization name and organization domain in different services)"
+ read -p 'domain: ' domain
+ if [ -z $domain ]; then
+ echo "Error: Empty string for domain! exiting..."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ echo
+ echo
+ echo
+ echo "Please provide following parameters for first socctolls user which will be created during the initialization with organization admin privileges:"
+ echo "firstname - First name of the user"
+ echo "lastname - Last name of the user"
+ echo "username - Username of the user"
+ echo "DN - Distinguished Name of the user, for user certificate"
+ echo "CN - Common Name of the user, for user certificate"
+ echo "Email will be generated automatically in Username@Domain format becouse of format restrictions in some services"
+ sleep 10
+ for i in firstname lastname username DN CN; do
+ read -p "${i}: " $i
+ if [ -z $i ]; then
+ echo "Error: Empty string for ${i}! exiting..."
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ done
+ echo
+ echo
+ echo
+ sleep 2
+ echo "Please check the gethered variables and type 'yes' if everything is correct: "
+ echo "soctoolsproxy: $soctoolsproxy"
+ echo "domain: $domain"
+ echo "firstname: $firstname"
+ echo "lastname: $lastname"
+ echo "username: $username"
+ echo "DN: $DN"
+ echo "CN: $CN"
+ echo
+ echo
+ sleep 10
+ read -p "Correct? type 'yes' or 'no': " ANSWER
+ if [ $ANSWER = "yes" ]; then
+ if ! [ -f group_vars/all/variables.template ]; then
+ echo "template file(group_vars/all/variables.template) does not exists! exiting ..."
+ exit 1
+ else
+ cp -f group_vars/all/variables.template group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "s/CHANGE_ME_TO_FQDN/${soctoolsproxy}/g" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "s/soctools.test/${domain}/g" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "11s/soc_admin/${firstname}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "12s/SOC/${lastname}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "13s/soc_admin/${username}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "14s/soc_admin/${username}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "15s/SOC_Admin/${DN}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "16s/SOC_Admin/${CN}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ sed -i "26s/soc_admin/${username}/" group_vars/all/variables.yml
+ echo
+ echo
+ echo "variables file generated (group_vars/all/variables.yml)"
+ sleep 2
+ echo "move to next command to deploy the soctools cluster."
+ echo 'Thank You!'
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "Exiting based of user input ..."
+ exit 0
+ fi
+fi
diff --git a/group_vars/all/main.yml b/group_vars/all/main.yml
index 3405aa99a37f3b76bf074406b3f7a4419751f478..66f8bab1fd1820724e5aa05c89d5f99a6b329ed2 100644
--- a/group_vars/all/main.yml
+++ b/group_vars/all/main.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
---
-soctoolsproxy: "CHANGE_ME_TO_FQDN"
-
maxmind_key: ""
docker_build_dir: "{{playbook_dir}}/build"
@@ -15,6 +13,12 @@ suffix: a20201004
kibana_plugins_version: "v0.7"
+THEHIVE_KIBANA_USER:
+ username: "kibana"
+ name: "Kibana"
+ surname: "User"
+ roles: '["read", "write"]'
+
haproxy_name: "soctools-haproxy"
haproxy_version: "2.2"
haproxy_img: "{{repo}}/haproxy:{{version}}{{suffix}}"
diff --git a/group_vars/all/variables.template b/group_vars/all/variables.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ed0178a7249d1afc7c1f64af3ab87c9c5b164a18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/group_vars/all/variables.template
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+
+# set FQDN which will be used to access the soctools services. (the DNS record should already be in place.)
+soctoolsproxy: "CHANGE_ME_TO_FQDN"
+
+# Organization's top level domain (will be used as organization name and organization domain in different services)
+domain: "soctools.test"
+
+#List of users which will be created during the initialization with organization admin privileges
+soctools_users:
+ - firstname: "soc_admin"
+ lastname: "SOC"
+ username: "soc_admin"
+ email: "soc_admin@{{domain}}"
+ DN: "CN=SOC_Admin"
+ CN: "SOC_Admin"
+# - firstname: "soc_admin_2"
+# lastname: "SOC"
+# username: "soc_admin_2"
+# email: "soc_admin_2@{{domain}}"
+# DN: "CN=SOC_Admin_2"
+# CN: "SOC_Admin_2"
+
+# list of users(username) from previous step which will recive admin roles in ODFE. (Minimum one user is required)
+ODFE_ADMIN_USERS:
+ - soc_admin
+# - soc_admin_2
+