F5 bigip_pool_member Module bigsuds not found

[Jason Gilfoil]

Hello Ansible Community,

Wondering if anyone familiar with this module could lend a hand. I'm attempting to use the bigip_pool_member module to force a node offline in an F5 LTM pool. However i'm getting the error "the python bigsuds module is required". I've verified that bigsuds is installed on the target F5.

[xxxxx@F5-Test:Active:Standalone] ~ # python

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr 22 2015, 16:27:42)

[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> import bigsuds

>>> b = bigsuds.BIGIP(

... hostname = 'xx.xx.xx.xx',

... username = 'xxxxx',

... password = 'xxxxx')

>>> b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list()

['/Common/swp_http', '/Common/http']

Here is the example playbook i'm trying to use:

http://pastebin.com/wkqw5K86

- hosts: all

  tasks:

  - name: set node offline

    local_action: >

      bigip_pool_member

      server=192.168.0.1

      user=ausername

      password=notmypassword

      state=present

      session_state=disabled

      monitor_state=disabled

      pool=http

      partition=common

      host="{{ ansible_default_ipv4['address'] }}"

      port=80

Any insight/assistance would be greatly appreciated.

-Jason

[Matt Martz]

You are running via a local_action, which means that `bigip_pool_member` is executing on the ansible control machine, not the F5.  As such you will need to install bigsuds on the ansible control machine.

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[Jason Gilfoil]

Oh Duh. Thanks for the quick response! That was indeed the problem. I assume this uses port 80 or 443 instead of ssh then from the ansible server to the F5?

[Matt Martz]

That is correct.  The bigsuds module communicates with an F5 via the SOAP API.

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[Bruno Calçado]

Hi Guys,

I'm having the same problem.  F5 version: 12

$ ansible --version
ansible 2.2.1.0
  config file = ./ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/usr/local/lib/PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages/ansible/modules/extras/network/f5/']

fatal: [F5-04]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "description": null,
            "host": null,
            "lb_method": "round_robin",
            "monitor_type": null,
            "monitors": null,
            "name": "web-bruno",
            "partition": "Common",
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
            "port": null,
            "quorum": null,
            "reselect_tries": null,
            "server": "F5-04",
            "server_port": 443,
            "service_down_action": null,
            "slow_ramp_time": 120,
            "state": "present",
            "user": "admin********",
            "validate_certs": false
        },
        "module_name": "bigip_pool"
    },
    "msg": "the python bigsuds module is required"
}

But I have the bigsuds in my Ansible machine.

[ansible@10 ~]$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug  9 2016, 06:11:56)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)] on linux2

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bigsuds

>>> b=bigsuds.BIGIP(hostname='x.x.x.x', username='********', password=                                                                                                                                                             '********')
>>> b.LocalLB.Pool.get_list()
['/Common/POOL1', '/Common/POOL2', '/Common/POOL5',

Could you help me ?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Bruno

[Tim]

This could happen for a number a reasons but most of the time its from

* Not using local_action or delegate_to: localhost in the task

* Running ansible in a virtualenv and not ensuring that bigsuds is installed in the venv and the python interpreter in the localhost host vars points to the venv python

Do either of the above apply?

-tim

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