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vkrishna91
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Oct 10, 2022

Unable to use ansible playbook to upgrade BIGIP - VE to 15.1.6.1 from 15.1.5.1

Hi Team, I'm trying to utilize ansible playbook to automate our F5 upgrade. Current version: 15.1.5.1 New version: 15.1.6.1 I'm trying to utilize a bash script to dynamically identify the par...
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  • Matt_Mabis's avatar
    Matt_Mabis
    Oct 27, 2022

    Just for anyone else who read this, the issue was a local execution 

     

      connection: local

     

    this causes the system to SSH to itself and there is no tmsh on the ansible host.   removing this line and then adding delegate_to: localhost when calling a BIG-IP module solved this issue.  it allows the playbook to remote execute the code via SSH

     

    After removing it and fixing a few code tweaks we were able to launch the code 

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Leslie_Hubertus
Ret. Employee
Oct 11, 2022

Hi vkrishna91, your post accidentally got caught in our automated spam filter overnight, but I've just released. I'm also looking for a colleague to take a look so we can get your upgrade going, though  KeesvandenBos and several other community members may be able to answer more quickly.