fortinet.fortios.fortios_system_switch_interface module – Configure software switch interfaces by grouping physical and WiFi interfaces 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_system_switch_interface.

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 system feature and switch_interface 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

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

system_switch_interface

dictionary

Configure software switch interfaces by grouping physical and WiFi interfaces.

intra_switch_policy

string

Allow any traffic between switch interfaces or require firewall policies to allow traffic between switch interfaces.

Choices:

  • implicit

  • explicit

mac_ttl

integer

Duration for which MAC addresses are held in the ARP table (300 - 8640000 sec).

member

list / elements=dictionary

Names of the interfaces that belong to the virtual switch.

interface_name

string

Physical interface name. Source system.interface.name.

name

string / required

Interface name (name cannot be in use by any other interfaces, VLANs, or inter-VDOM links).

span

string

Enable/disable port spanning. Port spanning echoes traffic received by the software switch to the span destination port.

Choices:

  • disable

  • enable

span_dest_port

string

SPAN destination port name. All traffic on the SPAN source ports is echoed to the SPAN destination port. Source system.interface.name.

span_direction

string

The direction in which the SPAN port operates, either: rx, tx, or both.

Choices:

  • rx

  • tx

  • both

span_source_port

list / elements=dictionary

Physical interface name. Port spanning echoes all traffic on the SPAN source ports to the SPAN destination port.

interface_name

string

Physical interface name. Source system.interface.name.

type

string

Type of switch based on functionality: switch for normal functionality, or hub to duplicate packets to all port members.

Choices:

  • switch

  • hub

vdom

string

VDOM that the software switch belongs to. Source system.vdom.name.

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 software switch interfaces by grouping physical and WiFi interfaces.
    fortios_system_switch_interface:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      system_switch_interface:
        intra_switch_policy: "implicit"
        mac_ttl: "4"
        member:
         -
            interface_name: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        name: "default_name_7"
        span: "disable"
        span_dest_port: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        span_direction: "rx"
        span_source_port:
         -
            interface_name: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        type: "switch"
        vdom: "<your_own_value> (source system.vdom.name)"

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)