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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 24, 2017

James:

Thanks for pointing these out - sad to say, I had already investigated these links with no success.

However, I have found and fixed the problem! The python modules suds and bigsuds had been installed without read/execute rights for anybody but root. I don't know how that happened, but changing the module permissions so they become publicly readable did the trick, and I can now run these playbooks through Ansible Tower.

To be specific: I added global read rights to suds, bigsuds and f5-sdk in the /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages directory.

chmod -R 755 f5*
chmod -R 755 suds
chmod -R 755 bigsuds