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Feb 17, 2021
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ansible - bigip_pool_member: cannot add pool member from "Common" to pool "Test"

Hi I'm running into an issue when I create pool member in /Common and create a pool in /Test, I'm unable to add the pool members to the pool using ansible bigip_pool_member. playbook # # Fil...
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    Feb 17, 2021

      thanks for your reply on slack channel, here is the working playbook for anyone's future reference.

    #
    # Filename    : pooltest.yaml
    # Author      : Balaji Venkataraman (xbalaji)
    # Description : playbook to configure bigip pool with members in different partition
     
     
    - name: create bigip_pool and add members to it
      hosts: all
      connection: local
      gather_facts: False
      vars:
        remove_resources: false
        lx_pool_name: "xbltmpool"
        lx_provider:
          server: "{{inventory_hostname}}"
          user: "{{f5_username}}"
          password: "{{f5_password}}"
          validate_certs: False
          timeout: 30
        pool_members:
          - "{{lx_pool_name}}-member-01.company.com"
          - "{{lx_pool_name}}-member-02.company.com"
     
      tasks:
        - name: set create or delete flag
          delegate_to: localhost
          set_fact:
            lx_state: "{% if remove_resources|lower == 'true' %}absent{% else %}present{% endif %}"
            lx_action: "{% if remove_resources|lower == 'true' %}delete{% else %}create{% endif %}"
     
        - name: "{{lx_action}} pool members"
          delegate_to: localhost
          bigip_node:
            name: "{{item}}"
            fqdn: "{{item}}"
            state: "{{lx_state}}"
            provider: "{{lx_provider}}"
            partition: "/Common"
            description: "ansible created LTM node - xbalaji"
          loop: "{{pool_members|flatten(1)}}"
     
        - name: "{{lx_action}} the pool"
          delegate_to: localhost
          bigip_pool:
            state: "{{lx_state}}"
            name: "{{lx_pool_name}}"
            partition: "/Test"
            lb_method: "round-robin"
            monitors:
              - "/Common/http"
            provider: "{{lx_provider}}"
     
        - name: "{{lx_action}} pool members to {{lx_pool_name}} "
          delegate_to: localhost
          bigip_pool_member:
            state: "{{lx_state}}"
            pool: "/Test/{{lx_pool_name}}"
            name: "/Common/{{item}}"
            fqdn: "{{item}}"
            port: "80"
            fqdn_auto_populate: "no"
            preserve_node: "yes"
            reuse_nodes: "yes"
            provider: "{{lx_provider}}"
          loop: "{{pool_members|flatten(1)}}"