F5 bigip_pool_member Module bigsuds not found

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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

2

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.

3

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?

4

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

5

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

6

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