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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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vkrishna91
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Oct 13, 2022

It seems to still keep sending me the following error:

ok: [m4s-pl-lben-d01] => {
"vol": {
"changed": true,
"failed": false,
"rc": 0,
"stderr": "/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-53436ousfriqb/ansible-tmp-1665677333.4435208-10213-19546309159604/cal_vol.sh: line 4: tmsh: command not found\n/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-53436ousfriqb/ansible-tmp-1665677333.4435208-10213-19546309159604/cal_vol.sh: line 16: tmsh: command not found\n",
"stderr_lines": [
"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-53436ousfriqb/ansible-tmp-1665677333.4435208-10213-19546309159604/cal_vol.sh: line 4: tmsh: command not found",
"/home/user/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-53436ousfriqb/ansible-tmp-1665677333.4435208-10213-19546309159604/cal_vol.sh: line 16: tmsh: command not found"
],
"stdout": "2",
"stdout_lines": [
"2"
]
}
}

I'm running as root to run the playbook. Would it be possible to post the complete playbook.