cisco.meraki.meraki_mx_l3_firewall – Manage MX appliance layer 3 firewalls in the Meraki cloud

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.meraki collection (version 2.2.0).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.meraki.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.meraki.meraki_mx_l3_firewall.

Synopsis

• Allows for creation, management, and visibility into layer 3 firewalls implemented on Meraki MX firewalls.

Parameters

Parameter		Choices/Defaults	Comments
auth_key string / required			Authentication key provided by the dashboard. Required if environmental variable MERAKI_KEY is not set.
host string		Default: "api.meraki.com"	Hostname for Meraki dashboard. Can be used to access regional Meraki environments, such as China.
internal_error_retry_time integer		Default: 60	Number of seconds to retry if server returns an internal server error.
net_id string			ID of network which MX firewall is in.
net_name string			Name of network which MX firewall is in.
org_id string			ID of organization.
org_name string			Name of organization. aliases: organization
output_format string		Choices: snakecase ← camelcase	Instructs module whether response keys should be snake case (ex. net_id) or camel case (ex. netId).
output_level string		Choices: debug normal ←	Set amount of debug output during module execution.
rate_limit_retry_time integer		Default: 165	Number of seconds to retry if rate limiter is triggered.
rules list / elements=dictionary			List of firewall rules.
	comment string		Optional comment to describe the firewall rule.
	dest_cidr string		Comma separated list of CIDR notation destination networks. Any must be capitalized.
	dest_port string		Comma separated list of destination port numbers to match against. Any must be capitalized.
	policy string	Choices: allow deny	Policy to apply if rule is hit.
	protocol string	Choices: any icmp tcp udp	Protocol to match against.
	src_cidr string		Comma separated list of CIDR notation source networks. Any must be capitalized.
	src_port string		Comma separated list of source port numbers to match against. Any must be capitalized.
	syslog_enabled boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Whether to log hints against the firewall rule. Only applicable if a syslog server is specified against the network.
state string		Choices: present ← query	Create or modify an organization.
syslog_default_rule boolean		Choices: no yes	Whether to log hits against the default firewall rule. Only applicable if a syslog server is specified against the network. This is not shown in response from Meraki. Instead, refer to the syslog_enabled value in the default rule.
timeout integer		Default: 30	Time to timeout for HTTP requests.
use_https boolean		Choices: no yes ←	If no, it will use HTTP. Otherwise it will use HTTPS. Only useful for internal Meraki developers.
use_proxy boolean		Choices: no ← yes	If no, it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts.
validate_certs boolean		Choices: no yes ←	Whether to validate HTTP certificates.

Notes

Note

• Module assumes a complete list of firewall rules are passed as a parameter.

• If there is interest in this module allowing manipulation of a single firewall rule, please submit an issue against this module.

• More information about the Meraki API can be found at https://dashboard.meraki.com/api_docs.

• Some of the options are likely only used for developers within Meraki.

• As of Ansible 2.9, Meraki modules output keys as snake case. To use camel case, set the ANSIBLE_MERAKI_FORMAT environment variable to camelcase.

• Ansible’s Meraki modules will stop supporting camel case output in Ansible 2.13. Please update your playbooks.

• Check Mode downloads the current configuration from the dashboard, then compares changes against this download. Check Mode will report changed if there are differences in the configurations, but does not submit changes to the API for validation of change.

Examples

- name: Query firewall rules
  meraki_mx_l3_firewall:
    auth_key: abc123
    org_name: YourOrg
    net_name: YourNet
    state: query
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set two firewall rules
  meraki_mx_l3_firewall:
    auth_key: abc123
    org_name: YourOrg
    net_name: YourNet
    state: present
    rules:
      - comment: Block traffic to server
        src_cidr: 192.0.1.0/24
        src_port: any
        dest_cidr: 192.0.2.2/32
        dest_port: any
        protocol: any
        policy: deny
      - comment: Allow traffic to group of servers
        src_cidr: 192.0.1.0/24
        src_port: any
        dest_cidr: 192.0.2.0/24
        dest_port: any
        protocol: any
        policy: permit
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Set one firewall rule and enable logging of the default rule
  meraki_mx_l3_firewall:
    auth_key: abc123
    org_name: YourOrg
    net_name: YourNet
    state: present
    rules:
      - comment: Block traffic to server
        src_cidr: 192.0.1.0/24
        src_port: any
        dest_cidr: 192.0.2.2/32
        dest_port: any
        protocol: any
        policy: deny
    syslog_default_rule: yes
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key			Returned	Description
data complex			success	Firewall rules associated to network.
	rules complex		success	List of firewall rules.
		comment string	always	Comment to describe the firewall rule. Sample: Block traffic to server
		dest_cidr string	always	Comma separated list of CIDR notation destination networks. Sample: 192.0.1.1/32,192.0.1.2/32
		dest_port string	always	Comma separated list of destination ports. Sample: 80,443
		policy string	always	Action to take when rule is matched.
		protocol string	always	Network protocol for which to match against. Sample: tcp
		src_cidr string	always	Comma separated list of CIDR notation source networks. Sample: 192.0.1.1/32,192.0.1.2/32
		src_port string	always	Comma separated list of source ports. Sample: 80,443
		syslog_enabled boolean	always	Whether to log to syslog when rule is matched. Sample: True

Authors

• Kevin Breit (@kbreit)