fortinet.fortios.fortios_wanopt_profile module – Configure WAN optimization profiles in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.2.1).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

New in fortinet.fortios 2.0.0

Synopsis

  • This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify wanopt feature and profile 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

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_token

string

Token-based authentication. Generated from GUI of Fortigate.

enable_log

boolean

Enable/Disable logging for task.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

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"

wanopt_profile

dictionary

Configure WAN optimization profiles.

auth_group

string

Optionally add an authentication group to restrict access to the WAN Optimization tunnel to peers in the authentication group. Source wanopt.auth-group.name.

cifs

dictionary

Enable/disable CIFS (Windows sharing) WAN Optimization and configure CIFS WAN Optimization features.

byte_caching

string

Enable/disable byte-caching. Byte caching reduces the amount of traffic by caching file data sent across the WAN and in future serving if from the cache.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

log_traffic

string

Enable/disable logging.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

port

integer

Single port number or port number range for CIFS. Only packets with a destination port number that matches this port number or range are accepted by this profile.

prefer_chunking

string

Select dynamic or fixed-size data chunking for WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "dynamic"

  • "fix"

protocol_opt

string

Select protocol specific optimization or generic TCP optimization.

Choices:

  • "protocol"

  • "tcp"

secure_tunnel

string

Enable/disable securing the WAN Opt tunnel using SSL. Secure and non-secure tunnels use the same TCP port (7810).

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

status

string

Enable/disable WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_sharing

string

Tunnel sharing mode for aggressive/non-aggressive and/or interactive/non-interactive protocols.

Choices:

  • "shared"

  • "express-shared"

  • "private"

comments

string

Comment.

ftp

dictionary

Enable/disable FTP WAN Optimization and configure FTP WAN Optimization features.

byte_caching

string

Enable/disable byte-caching. Byte caching reduces the amount of traffic by caching file data sent across the WAN and in future serving if from the cache.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

log_traffic

string

Enable/disable logging.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

port

integer

Single port number or port number range for FTP. Only packets with a destination port number that matches this port number or range are accepted by this profile.

prefer_chunking

string

Select dynamic or fixed-size data chunking for WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "dynamic"

  • "fix"

protocol_opt

string

Select protocol specific optimization or generic TCP optimization.

Choices:

  • "protocol"

  • "tcp"

secure_tunnel

string

Enable/disable securing the WAN Opt tunnel using SSL. Secure and non-secure tunnels use the same TCP port (7810).

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ssl

string

Enable/disable SSL/TLS offloading (hardware acceleration) for traffic in this tunnel.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

status

string

Enable/disable WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_sharing

string

Tunnel sharing mode for aggressive/non-aggressive and/or interactive/non-interactive protocols.

Choices:

  • "shared"

  • "express-shared"

  • "private"

http

dictionary

Enable/disable HTTP WAN Optimization and configure HTTP WAN Optimization features.

byte_caching

string

Enable/disable byte-caching. Byte caching reduces the amount of traffic by caching file data sent across the WAN and in future serving if from the cache.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

log_traffic

string

Enable/disable logging.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

port

integer

Single port number or port number range for HTTP. Only packets with a destination port number that matches this port number or range are accepted by this profile.

prefer_chunking

string

Select dynamic or fixed-size data chunking for WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "dynamic"

  • "fix"

protocol_opt

string

Select protocol specific optimization or generic TCP optimization.

Choices:

  • "protocol"

  • "tcp"

secure_tunnel

string

Enable/disable securing the WAN Opt tunnel using SSL. Secure and non-secure tunnels use the same TCP port (7810).

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ssl

string

Enable/disable SSL/TLS offloading (hardware acceleration) for traffic in this tunnel.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ssl_port

integer

Port on which to expect HTTPS traffic for SSL/TLS offloading.

status

string

Enable/disable WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_non_http

string

Configure how to process non-HTTP traffic when a profile configured for HTTP traffic accepts a non-HTTP session. Can occur if an application sends non-HTTP traffic using an HTTP destination port.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_sharing

string

Tunnel sharing mode for aggressive/non-aggressive and/or interactive/non-interactive protocols.

Choices:

  • "shared"

  • "express-shared"

  • "private"

unknown_http_version

string

How to handle HTTP sessions that do not comply with HTTP 0.9, 1.0, or 1.1.

Choices:

  • "reject"

  • "tunnel"

  • "best-effort"

mapi

dictionary

Enable/disable MAPI email WAN Optimization and configure MAPI WAN Optimization features.

byte_caching

string

Enable/disable byte-caching. Byte caching reduces the amount of traffic by caching file data sent across the WAN and in future serving if from the cache.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

log_traffic

string

Enable/disable logging.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

port

integer

Single port number or port number range for MAPI. Only packets with a destination port number that matches this port number or range are accepted by this profile.

secure_tunnel

string

Enable/disable securing the WAN Opt tunnel using SSL. Secure and non-secure tunnels use the same TCP port (7810).

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

status

string

Enable/disable WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_sharing

string

Tunnel sharing mode for aggressive/non-aggressive and/or interactive/non-interactive protocols.

Choices:

  • "shared"

  • "express-shared"

  • "private"

name

string / required

Profile name.

tcp

dictionary

Enable/disable TCP WAN Optimization and configure TCP WAN Optimization features.

byte_caching

string

Enable/disable byte-caching. Byte caching reduces the amount of traffic by caching file data sent across the WAN and in future serving if from the cache.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

byte_caching_opt

string

Select whether TCP byte-caching uses system memory only or both memory and disk space.

Choices:

  • "mem-only"

  • "mem-disk"

log_traffic

string

Enable/disable logging.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

port

string

Port numbers or port number ranges for TCP. Only packets with a destination port number that matches this port number or range are accepted by this profile.

secure_tunnel

string

Enable/disable securing the WAN Opt tunnel using SSL. Secure and non-secure tunnels use the same TCP port (7810).

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ssl

string

Enable/disable SSL/TLS offloading (hardware acceleration) for traffic in this tunnel.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ssl_port

string

Port numbers or port number ranges on which to expect HTTPS traffic for SSL/TLS offloading.

status

string

Enable/disable WAN Optimization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_sharing

string

Tunnel sharing mode for aggressive/non-aggressive and/or interactive/non-interactive protocols.

Choices:

  • "shared"

  • "express-shared"

  • "private"

transparent

string

Enable/disable transparent mode.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

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 WAN optimization profiles.
    fortios_wanopt_profile:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      wanopt_profile:
        auth_group: "<your_own_value> (source wanopt.auth-group.name)"
        cifs:
            byte_caching: "enable"
            log_traffic: "enable"
            port: "32767"
            prefer_chunking: "dynamic"
            protocol_opt: "protocol"
            secure_tunnel: "enable"
            status: "enable"
            tunnel_sharing: "shared"
        comments: "<your_own_value>"
        ftp:
            byte_caching: "enable"
            log_traffic: "enable"
            port: "32767"
            prefer_chunking: "dynamic"
            protocol_opt: "protocol"
            secure_tunnel: "enable"
            ssl: "enable"
            status: "enable"
            tunnel_sharing: "shared"
        http:
            byte_caching: "enable"
            log_traffic: "enable"
            port: "32767"
            prefer_chunking: "dynamic"
            protocol_opt: "protocol"
            secure_tunnel: "enable"
            ssl: "enable"
            ssl_port: "32767"
            status: "enable"
            tunnel_non_http: "enable"
            tunnel_sharing: "shared"
            unknown_http_version: "reject"
        mapi:
            byte_caching: "enable"
            log_traffic: "enable"
            port: "32767"
            secure_tunnel: "enable"
            status: "enable"
            tunnel_sharing: "shared"
        name: "default_name_44"
        tcp:
            byte_caching: "enable"
            byte_caching_opt: "mem-only"
            log_traffic: "enable"
            port: "<your_own_value>"
            secure_tunnel: "enable"
            ssl: "enable"
            ssl_port: "<your_own_value>"
            status: "enable"
            tunnel_sharing: "shared"
        transparent: "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)