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David_Rowswell
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Oct 18, 2017

Ansible Tower : the python suds and bigsuds modules are required

I have a trial install of Ansible Tower and I'm trying to write a very simple playbook that will retrieve some facts from our Lab F5.   This playbook works fine from the command line, but not fro...
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Oct 23, 2017

Further information that could be of use:

If I run this playbook while signed on as root in the CLI, it runs fine. If I run it from Ansible Tower I see the error message:

    "msg": "the python suds and bigsuds modules are required"

I get the same error message if I run the playbook while becoming the user awx (which I guess Ansible Tower runs as?):

    ansible-playbook f5-facts.yml -become=true --become-user=awx -vvv

So awx either can't find the python modules or does not have permission to access them...