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fortinet.fortios.fortios_application_name – Configure application signatures in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This plugin is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.1.3).

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 fortinet.fortios.

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

New in version 2.10: of fortinet.fortios

Synopsis

• This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify application feature and name category. 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

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
access_token string	Token-based authentication. Generated from GUI of Fortigate.
application_name dictionary	Configure application signatures.
behavior string	Application behavior.
category integer	Application category ID.
id integer	Application ID.
metadata list / elements=string	Meta data.
id integer / required	ID.
metaid integer	Meta ID.
valueid integer	Value ID.
name string / required	Application name.
parameter string	Application parameter name.
parameters list / elements=string	Application parameters.
default value string	Parameter default value.
name string / required	Parameter name.
popularity integer	Application popularity.
protocol string	Application protocol.
risk integer	Application risk.
sub_category integer	Application sub-category ID.
technology string	Application technology.
vendor string	Application vendor.
weight integer	Application weight.
enable_log boolean	Enable/Disable logging for task. Choices: no ← (default) yes
member_path string	Member attribute path to operate on. Delimited by a slash character if there are more than one attribute. Parameter marked with member_path is legitimate for doing member operation.
member_state string	Add or delete a member under specified attribute path. When member_state is specified, the state option is ignored. Choices: present absent
state string / required	Indicates whether to create or remove the object. Choices: present absent
vdom string	Virtual domain, among those defined previously. A vdom is a virtual instance of the FortiGate that can be configured and used as a different unit. Default: “root”

Notes

Note

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

Examples

- collections:
  - fortinet.fortios
  connection: httpapi
  hosts: fortigate01
  vars:
    ansible_httpapi_port: 443
    ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: true
    ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: false
    vdom: root
  tasks:
  - name: fortios_application_name
    fortios_application_name:
      vdom: root
      state: present
      application_name:
        category: 30
        id: 27210
        metadata:
        - id: 0
          metaid: 7
          valueid: 1
        name: Amazon.AWS
        popularity: 5
        protocol: TCP, HTTP, SSL
        risk: 3
        sub_category: 0
        technology: Browser-Based
        vendor: Other
        weight: 10

Return Values

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

Key	Description
build string	Build number of the fortigate image Returned: always Sample: “1547”
http_method string	Last method used to provision the content into FortiGate Returned: always Sample: “PUT”
http_status string	Last result given by FortiGate on last operation applied Returned: always Sample: “200”
mkey string	Master key (id) used in the last call to FortiGate Returned: success Sample: “id”
name string	Name of the table used to fulfill the request Returned: always Sample: “urlfilter”
path string	Path of the table used to fulfill the request Returned: always Sample: “webfilter”
revision string	Internal revision number Returned: always Sample: “17.0.2.10658”
serial string	Serial number of the unit Returned: always Sample: “FGVMEVYYQT3AB5352”
status string	Indication of the operation’s result Returned: always Sample: “success”
vdom string	Virtual domain used Returned: always Sample: “root”
version string	Version of the FortiGate Returned: always Sample: “v5.6.3”

Authors

• Link Zheng (@chillancezen)

• Jie Xue (@JieX19)

• Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)

• Frank Shen (@frankshen01)

• Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)

• Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)