Hi,
I have a written a script to do IOS upgrade of active-standby ASA firewall. Script first upgrades standby firewall and does post-upgrade verification and then switches to active firewall to upgrade it (multiple plays in a playbook). Using ansible 2.10 with python 3 in WSL linux. After standby firewall reloads and comes back, script freezes in the ASA_command module for gathering failover state for no apparent reason. No success or error is shown, it just stends there. This same failover state is gathered without any issues before reload though. I removed ASA_command module but script again freezes in the next module below ASA_command module. This happens only for active-stansby firewall. The same module doesn't freeze for standalone firewall after reboot. i changed connection type from network_cli to local but didn't help. I am giving below truncated script and console output for 'gather failover state' module when script was run with -vvvv. As the entire script is several pages long. I am thinking of experimenting with cli_command module instead of asa_command module. Also thinking of splitting post-upgrade tasks into a separate play withion same playbook. However i am trying to get to the root cause of this issue. *TRUNCATED SCRIPT:* --- - name: 1ST PLAY FOR STANDBY FIREWALL UPGRADE TASKS hosts: STANDBYFIREWALL serial: 1 gather_facts: false connection: local tasks: - name: GATHER FAILOVER STATE asa_command: commands: "show failover state | i This" register: show_failover - name: WRITE TO MEMORY asa_config: save: yes vars: ansible_command_timeout: 300 - name: RELOAD asa_command: commands: "reload noconfirm" async: 60 poll: 0 - name: sleep for 3 minutes wait_for: timeout: 180 delegate_to: localhost - name: WAIT FOR FIREWALL TO REBOOT wait_for: host: "{{ ansible_host }}" port: 22 timeout: 3600 delegate_to: localhost - name: sleep for 4 minutes for services & protocols to load wait_for: timeout: 240 delegate_to: localhost - name: GATHER FAILOVER STATE asa_command: commands: "show failover state | i This" register: show_failover_new *OUTPUT:* TASK [GATHER FAILOVER STATE] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** redirecting (type: action) ansible.builtin.asa to cisco.asa.asa redirecting (type: action) ansible.builtin.asa to cisco.asa.asa <10.58.222.4> using connection plugin network_cli (was local) redirecting (type: connection) ansible.builtin.persistent to ansible.netcommon.persistent <10.58.222.4> starting connection from persistent connection plugin Found ansible-connection at path /usr/bin/ansible-connection shutdown complete Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 699, in recv out = self.in_buffer.read(nbytes, self.timeout) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/buffered_pipe.py", line 164, in read raise PipeTimeout() paramiko.buffered_pipe.PipeTimeout During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py", line 962, in send response = self.receive( File "/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py", line 913, in receive response = self.receive_paramiko( File "/root/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ansible/netcommon/plugins/connection/network_cli.py", line 727, in receive_paramiko data = self._ssh_shell.recv(256) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/paramiko/channel.py", line 701, in recv raise socket.timeout() socket.timeout Regards, Vikram -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/c72aafa0-32ff-4c9a-8129-29bdebb882e9n%40googlegroups.com.