fortinet.fortios.fortios_firewall_shaping_policy – Configure shaping policies 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_firewall_shaping_policy.

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 firewall feature and shaping_policy 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.

enable_log

boolean

Enable/Disable logging for task.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

firewall_shaping_policy

dictionary

Configure shaping policies.

app_category

list / elements=string

IDs of one or more application categories that this shaper applies application control traffic shaping to.

id

integer / required

Category IDs.

app_group

list / elements=string

One or more application group names.

name

string / required

Application group name. Source application.group.name.

application

list / elements=string

IDs of one or more applications that this shaper applies application control traffic shaping to.

id

integer / required

Application IDs.

class_id

integer

Traffic class ID. Source firewall.traffic-class.class-id.

comment

string

Comments.

diffserv_forward

string

Enable to change packet”s DiffServ values to the specified diffservcode-forward value.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

diffserv_reverse

string

Enable to change packet”s reverse (reply) DiffServ values to the specified diffservcode-rev value.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

diffservcode_forward

string

Change packet”s DiffServ to this value.

diffservcode_rev

string

Change packet”s reverse (reply) DiffServ to this value.

dstaddr

list / elements=string

IPv4 destination address and address group names.

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name.

dstaddr6

list / elements=string

IPv6 destination address and address group names.

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address6.name firewall.addrgrp6.name.

dstintf

list / elements=string

One or more outgoing (egress) interfaces.

name

string / required

Interface name. Source system.interface.name system.zone.name.

groups

list / elements=string

Apply this traffic shaping policy to user groups that have authenticated with the FortiGate.

name

string / required

Group name. Source user.group.name.

id

integer / required

Shaping policy ID.

internet_service

string

Enable/disable use of Internet Services for this policy. If enabled, destination address and service are not used.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

internet_service_custom

list / elements=string

Custom Internet Service name.

name

string / required

Custom Internet Service name. Source firewall.internet-service-custom.name.

internet_service_custom_group

list / elements=string

Custom Internet Service group name.

name

string / required

Custom Internet Service group name. Source firewall.internet-service-custom-group.name.

internet_service_group

list / elements=string

Internet Service group name.

name

string / required

Internet Service group name. Source firewall.internet-service-group.name.

internet_service_id

list / elements=string

Internet Service ID.

id

integer / required

Internet Service ID. Source firewall.internet-service.id.

internet_service_name

list / elements=string

Internet Service ID.

name

string / required

Internet Service name. Source firewall.internet-service-name.name.

internet_service_src

string

Enable/disable use of Internet Services in source for this policy. If enabled, source address is not used.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

internet_service_src_custom

list / elements=string

Custom Internet Service source name.

name

string / required

Custom Internet Service name. Source firewall.internet-service-custom.name.

internet_service_src_custom_group

list / elements=string

Custom Internet Service source group name.

name

string / required

Custom Internet Service group name. Source firewall.internet-service-custom-group.name.

internet_service_src_group

list / elements=string

Internet Service source group name.

name

string / required

Internet Service group name. Source firewall.internet-service-group.name.

internet_service_src_id

list / elements=string

Internet Service source ID.

id

integer / required

Internet Service ID. Source firewall.internet-service.id.

internet_service_src_name

list / elements=string

Internet Service source name.

name

string / required

Internet Service name. Source firewall.internet-service-name.name.

ip_version

string

Apply this traffic shaping policy to IPv4 or IPv6 traffic.

Choices:

  • 4

  • 6

name

string

Shaping policy name.

per_ip_shaper

string

Per-IP traffic shaper to apply with this policy. Source firewall.shaper.per-ip-shaper.name.

schedule

string

Schedule name. Source firewall.schedule.onetime.name firewall.schedule.recurring.name firewall.schedule.group.name.

service

list / elements=string

Service and service group names.

name

string / required

Service name. Source firewall.service.custom.name firewall.service.group.name.

srcaddr

list / elements=string

IPv4 source address and address group names.

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name.

srcaddr6

list / elements=string

IPv6 source address and address group names.

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address6.name firewall.addrgrp6.name.

srcintf

list / elements=string

One or more incoming (ingress) interfaces.

name

string / required

Interface name. Source system.interface.name system.zone.name.

status

string

Enable/disable this traffic shaping policy.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

tos

string

ToS (Type of Service) value used for comparison.

tos_mask

string

Non-zero bit positions are used for comparison while zero bit positions are ignored.

tos_negate

string

Enable negated TOS match.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

traffic_shaper

string

Traffic shaper to apply to traffic forwarded by the firewall policy. Source firewall.shaper.traffic-shaper.name.

traffic_shaper_reverse

string

Traffic shaper to apply to response traffic received by the firewall policy. Source firewall.shaper.traffic-shaper.name.

url_category

list / elements=string

IDs of one or more FortiGuard Web Filtering categories that this shaper applies traffic shaping to.

id

integer / required

URL category ID.

users

list / elements=string

Apply this traffic shaping policy to individual users that have authenticated with the FortiGate.

name

string / required

User name. Source user.local.name.

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_firewall_shaping_policy
    fortios_firewall_shaping_policy:
      vdom: root
      state: present
      firewall_shaping_policy:
        class_id: 0
        diffserv_forward: disable
        diffserv_reverse: disable
        diffservcode_forward: '000000'
        diffservcode_rev: '000000'
        dstaddr:
        - name: all
        dstintf:
        - name: port4
        id: 1
        internet_service: disable
        internet_service_src: disable
        ip_version: '4'
        name: shapingpolicys1
        service:
        - name: ALL
        srcaddr:
        - name: all
        status: enable
        tos: '0x00'
        tos_mask: '0x00'
        tos_negate: disable

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)