community.network.ftd_configuration – Manages configuration on Cisco FTD devices over REST API

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.ftd_configuration.

Synopsis

  • Manages configuration on Cisco FTD devices including creating, updating, removing configuration objects, scheduling and staring jobs, deploying pending changes, etc. All operations are performed over REST API.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

data

dictionary

Key-value pairs that should be sent as body parameters in a REST API call

filters

dictionary

Key-value dict that represents equality filters. Every key is a property name and value is its desired value. If multiple filters are present, they are combined with logical operator AND.

operation

string / required

The name of the operation to execute. Commonly, the operation starts with ‘add’, ‘edit’, ‘get’, ‘upsert’ or ‘delete’ verbs, but can have an arbitrary name too.

path_params

dictionary

Key-value pairs that should be sent as path parameters in a REST API call.

query_params

dictionary

Key-value pairs that should be sent as query parameters in a REST API call.

register_as

string

Specifies Ansible fact name that is used to register received response from the FTD device.

Examples

- name: Create a network object
  community.network.ftd_configuration:
    operation: "addNetworkObject"
    data:
      name: "Ansible-network-host"
      description: "From Ansible with love"
      subType: "HOST"
      value: "192.168.2.0"
      dnsResolution: "IPV4_AND_IPV6"
      type: "networkobject"
      isSystemDefined: false
    register_as: "hostNetwork"

- name: Delete the network object
  community.network.ftd_configuration:
    operation: "deleteNetworkObject"
    path_params:
      objId: "{{ hostNetwork['id'] }}"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

response

dictionary

HTTP response returned from the API call.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Cisco Systems, Inc. (@annikulin)