fortinet.fortios.fortios_system_config_backup_restore – Backup/restore fortigate configuration

Note

This plugin is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 1.1.9).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install fortinet.fortios.

To use it in a playbook, specify: fortinet.fortios.fortios_system_config_backup_restore.

New in version 2.10: of fortinet.fortios

Synopsis

• This module is able to backup or restore the global or particial settings of the fortigate Examples include all parameters and values need to be adjusted to datasources before usage. Tested with FOS v6.0.0

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• ansible>=2.9.0

Notes

Note

• Legacy fortiosapi has been deprecated, httpapi is the preferred way to run playbooks

Examples

- hosts: fortigates
  connection: httpapi
  collections:
    - fortinet.fortios
  vars:
    vdom: "root"
    ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: yes
    ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: no
    ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
  - name: backup a_specific_vdom settings
    fortios_system_config_backup_restore:
     config: "system config backup"
     vdom: "{{ vdom }}"
     backup: "yes"
     scope: "vdom"
     filename: "/tmp/backup_vdom"

  - name: backup global settings
    fortios_system_config_backup_restore:
     config: "system config backup"
     vdom: "{{ vdom }}"
     backup: "yes"
     scope: "global"
     filename: "/tmp/backup_global"

  - name: Restore a_specific_vdom settings
    fortios_system_config_backup_restore:
     config: "system config restore"
     vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
     scope: "vdom"
     filename: "/tmp/backup_vdom"

  - name: Restore global settings
    fortios_system_config_backup_restore:
     config: "system config restore"
     vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
     scope: "global"
     filename: "/tmp/backup_global"

Authors

• Link Zheng (@chillancezen)

• Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)

• Frank Shen (@frankshen01)

• Jie Xue (@JieX19)

• Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)

• Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)