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alanjohnson7467
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Feb 06, 2023

Ansible Module for bash against F5 LTM

Hi folks, I'm trying to find an Ansible module that will actually work for bash against F5 LTMs. I've tried command, shell, and ansible.builtin.shell with no luck. Alternatively an Ansible modu...
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Feb 07, 2023

alanjohnson7467 For the first section where you are using SCP to copy UCS backups off of your device you might be able to achieve the same thing using the following article.

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K13418

For that second one, I'm unsure what exactly you are attempting to achieve and I wish I could be a bit more help. You might go into a bit more detail on the second one to see if someone is able to assist.

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    alanjohnson7467
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    Feb 07, 2023

     

    Hi Paulius.

    I appreciate you sharing the article. I'm actually already using crontab to schedule the SCP/UCS commands I posted (as well as the second set of commands). However, there is a desire to use Ansible to do this in my organization wherever possible. Not to mention crontab jobs get whiped away when upgrading TMSH, and there isn't the level of accounting we desire.

    For those curious this is the workflow and the reason behind it:

    We're using AWS for disaster recovery of one of our physical datacenters. The scripts I shared are a sample of what I came up with to copy an on-prem config to a staging F5 in AWS, with the 2nd script set to run on the staging F5 to load the config via platform-migration, clean-up the config, then send it to a s3 bucket where it will next be downloaded by multiple F5s within our AWS DR network bubble. Each of those F5s have their own cronjobs and scripts to load the config and apply the necessary base configs for them to function (mostly network changes).

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      Paulius
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      Feb 07, 2023

      alanjohnson7467 I found the following article that seems like it could be your solution for the UCS backup and SCP but I haven't found anything to perform the second task dealing with AWS.

      https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K35454259

      Hopefully someone else here might have a bit more insite on the second task.