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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
    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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vkrishna91
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Thanks Leslie for the assistance.
Would be helpful to get some guidance on the issue. 

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Leslie_Hubertus
Ret. Employee
Oct 11, 2022

Yeah, I'm not technical, but I know a few folks who are. There's zero reason you shouldn't be able to make it work with a little assist. 🙂