Ansible bigip_command module

I think your issue is the way you are using the

wait_for

parameter.

So

wait_for

within the

bigip_command

module is not a conditional in the sense of if than then this but used more to confirm something is valid and if not they fails the tasks, so raises an error.

From Ansible bigip_command_module regarding

wait_for

parameter:

Specifies what to evaluate from the output of the command and what conditionals to apply. This argument will cause the task to wait for a particular conditional to be true before moving forward. If the conditional is not true by the configured retries, the task fails.

You should look at Ansible Playbook Condistionals and look to do something like this:

- name: Checking which LTM is active....
    bigip_command:
      server: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
      user: "{{ remote_username }}"
      password: "{{ remote_passwd }}"
      validate_certs: no
      commands:
        - "tmsh show sys failover"      
    register: result
    delegate_to: localhost

- name: Debug Failover State
  when: "'active' in result['stdout'][0]"
  debug: var=result

Here we capture the output of the

tmsh show sys failover

command using

register

then we run another task, in this case

debug

with the

when

parameter which checks for the work 'active' in the output we registered.

Our conditional

when

is part of future tasks and not the initial task.

If you have multiple commands then each output will be different item in the 'stdout' list, e.g. first command you can get the string out put from

result['stdout'][0]

the second from

result['stdout'][1]

etc.