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Zuke
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Feb 05, 2021

Ansible bigip_command module error message

I'm trying to run a simple playbook to create a link in bash: --- - name: Issue a command on the F5 devices hosts: all connection: local environment: F5_SERVER: '{​​{​​ ansible_host |...
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Zuke
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Feb 17, 2021

Mike your whitespace looks off. I pasted your playbook as printed above to yamllint.com and got errors. Try this.

--- 
tasks: 
  - 
    bigip_command: 
      commands: 
        - "netstat -rn | grep \"^0.0.0.0\" | grep -v mgmt | awk '{print $2}'"
      provider: "{{ provider }}"
    name: "Default Gateway"
    register: f5_gateway_output
  - 
    debug: 
    var: f5_gateway_output
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Zuke
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Feb 18, 2021

No I haven't successfully run a bash command with this module, and the documentation on the Ansible page is ambiguous. "Run TMSH and bash commands" headline and every example shows a command that is executed in TMSH. I've tried running this playbook with two commands given, the first command being "bash" but no luck. I still get the encoding error.

 

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/f5networks/f5_modules/bigip_command_module.html#ansible-collections-f5networks-f5-modules-bigip-command-module

 

FWIW I think I will use a different, non-F5 module if I'm going to use bash commands going forward.