fortinet.fortios.fortios_firewall_multicast_address module – Configure multicast addresses in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.1.6).

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_multicast_address.

New in version 2.0.0: 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 multicast_address 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_multicast_address

dictionary

Configure multicast addresses.

associated_interface

string

Interface associated with the address object. When setting up a policy, only addresses associated with this interface are available. Source system.interface.name.

color

integer

Integer value to determine the color of the icon in the GUI (1 - 32).

comment

string

Comment.

end_ip

string

Final IPv4 address (inclusive) in the range for the address.

name

string / required

Multicast address name.

start_ip

string

First IPv4 address (inclusive) in the range for the address.

subnet

string

Broadcast address and subnet.

tagging

list / elements=dictionary

Config object tagging.

category

string

Tag category. Source system.object-tagging.category.

name

string / required

Tagging entry name.

tags

list / elements=dictionary

Tags.

name

string / required

Tag name. Source system.object-tagging.tags.name.

type

string

Type of address object: multicast IP address range or broadcast IP/mask to be treated as a multicast address.

Choices:

  • multicastrange

  • broadcastmask

visibility

string

Enable/disable visibility of the multicast address on the GUI.

Choices:

  • enable

  • disable

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

- hosts: fortigates
  collections:
    - fortinet.fortios
  connection: httpapi
  vars:
   vdom: "root"
   ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: yes
   ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: no
   ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
  - name: Configure multicast addresses.
    fortios_firewall_multicast_address:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      firewall_multicast_address:
        associated_interface: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        color: "4"
        comment: "Comment."
        end_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        name: "default_name_7"
        start_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        subnet: "<your_own_value>"
        tagging:
         -
            category: "<your_own_value> (source system.object-tagging.category)"
            name: "default_name_12"
            tags:
             -
                name: "default_name_14 (source system.object-tagging.tags.name)"
        type: "multicastrange"
        visibility: "enable"

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)