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smandru_360193
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May 02, 2018

SNAT Error While Using Ansible to Create a VS in BigIP

I am trying to create a VS using Ansible playbook. It is able to create the virtual server but not able to set SNAT setting that i wanted (Automap), getting the following error fatal: [xxx.com]: ...
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May 04, 2018

can you try following the procedure in this url: http://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/gsts/html/class1/module2/lab05.html

 

I noticed that on the reference url, snat is defined higher up the list compare to yours, its in the bottom.

 

can you try modifying your playbook and somewhat copy what is in the reference url? share any errors when you run the playbook after the change.

 

when running your playbook, since you are getting an error, can you enable verbose logging and share the output? see this url:

 

http://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/gsts/html/class1/module4/module4.html

 

hopefully, this will give more verbose output on the errors received.

 

see also http://clouddocs.f5.com/products/orchestration/ansible/devel/modules/bigip_virtual_server_module.htmlbigip-virtual-server

 

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    smandru_360193
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    May 04, 2018

    I had interchanged the modules/arguments to the way it is showed in the reference url, but had no luck, i got the same error

     bigip_virtual_server:
    destination: DEST_IP
    password: MY_PASS
    name: VS_NAME
    pool: POOL_NAME
    port: 80
    server: xxx.com
    snat: Automap
    user: admin
    all_profiles:
      - tcp
      - http
    validate_certs: no

    error

    fatal: [xxx.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "received exception: Error on updating Virtual Server : Error on setting snat : Method not found: 'LocalLB.VirtualServer.LocalLB.VirtualServerPort.get_source_address_translation_type'"}

    I had the same job run it in verbose mode and this is the output i got

    TASK [Create virtual server] *********************************************************************************************************************
task path: /etc/ansible/f5-virt.yml:6
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/network/f5/bigip_virtual_server.py
 ESTABLISH LOCAL CONNECTION FOR USER: root
 EXEC /bin/sh -c 'echo ~ && sleep 0'
 EXEC /bin/sh -c '( umask 77 && mkdir -p "` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090 `" && echo ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090="` echo /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090 `" ) && sleep 0'
 PUT /tmp/tmpfOasSB TO /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090/bigip_virtual_server.py
 EXEC /bin/sh -c 'chmod u+x /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090/ /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090/bigip_virtual_server.py && sleep 0'
 EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090/bigip_virtual_server.py; rm -rf "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1525440236.15-140334385587090/" > /dev/null 2>&1 && sleep 0'
fatal: [xxx.com]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "all_policies": null,
            "all_profiles": [
                "tcp",
                "http"
            ],
            "all_rules": null,
            "default_persistence_profile": null,
            "description": null,
            "destination": "DEST_IP",
            "enabled_vlans": null,
            "fallback_persistence_profile": null,
            "name": "VS_NAME",
            "partition": "Common",
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "pool": "POOL_NAME",
            "port": "80",
            "route_advertisement_state": null,
            "server": "xxx.com",
            "server_port": 443,
            "snat": "Automap",
            "state": "present",
            "user": "admin",
            "validate_certs": false
        }
    },
    "msg": "received exception: Error on updating Virtual Server : Error on setting snat : Method not found: 'LocalLB.VirtualServer.LocalLB.VirtualServerPort.get_source_address_translation_type'"
 }

    Thanks for all your time to support this!