fortinet.fortios.fortios_firewall_vip46 module – Configure IPv4 to IPv6 virtual IPs in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.3.0).

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_firewall_vip46.

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 firewall feature and vip46 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

firewall_vip46

dictionary

Configure IPv4 to IPv6 virtual IPs.

arp_reply

string

Enable ARP reply.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "enable"

color

integer

Color of icon on the GUI.

comment

string

Comment.

extip

string

Start-external-IP [-end-external-IP].

extport

string

External service port.

id

integer

Custom defined id.

ldb_method

string

Load balance method.

Choices:

  • "static"

  • "round-robin"

  • "weighted"

  • "least-session"

  • "least-rtt"

  • "first-alive"

mappedip

string

Start-mapped-IPv6-address [-end mapped-IPv6-address].

mappedport

string

Mapped service port.

monitor

list / elements=dictionary

Health monitors.

name

string / required

Health monitor name. Source firewall.ldb-monitor.name.

name

string / required

VIP46 name.

portforward

string

Enable port forwarding.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "enable"

protocol

string

Mapped port protocol.

Choices:

  • "tcp"

  • "udp"

realservers

list / elements=dictionary

Real servers.

client_ip

string

Restrict server to a client IP in this range.

healthcheck

string

Per server health check.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "enable"

  • "vip"

holddown_interval

integer

Hold down interval.

id

integer / required

Real server ID.

ip

string

Mapped server IPv6.

max_connections

integer

Maximum number of connections allowed to server.

monitor

list / elements=dictionary

Health monitors. Source firewall.ldb-monitor.name.

name

string / required

Health monitor name. Source firewall.ldb-monitor.name.

port

integer

Mapped server port.

status

string

Server administrative status.

Choices:

  • "active"

  • "standby"

  • "disable"

weight

integer

weight

server_type

string

Server type.

Choices:

  • "http"

  • "tcp"

  • "udp"

  • "ip"

src_filter

list / elements=dictionary

Source IP filter (x.x.x.x/x).

range

string / required

Src-filter range.

srcintf_filter

list / elements=dictionary

Interfaces to which the VIP46 applies. Separate the names with spaces.

interface_name

string / required

Interface name. Source system.interface.name.

type

string

VIP type: static NAT or server load balance.

Choices:

  • "static-nat"

  • "server-load-balance"

uuid

string

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID; automatically assigned but can be manually reset).

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 IPv4 to IPv6 virtual IPs.
    fortios_firewall_vip46:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      firewall_vip46:
        arp_reply: "disable"
        color: "0"
        comment: "Comment."
        extip: "<your_own_value>"
        extport: "<your_own_value>"
        id:  "8"
        ldb_method: "static"
        mappedip: "<your_own_value>"
        mappedport: "<your_own_value>"
        monitor:
         -
            name: "default_name_13 (source firewall.ldb-monitor.name)"
        name: "default_name_14"
        portforward: "disable"
        protocol: "tcp"
        realservers:
         -
            client_ip: "<your_own_value>"
            healthcheck: "disable"
            holddown_interval: "300"
            id:  "21"
            ip: "<your_own_value>"
            max_connections: "0"
            monitor:
             -
                name: "default_name_25 (source firewall.ldb-monitor.name)"
            port: "0"
            status: "active"
            weight: "1"
        server_type: "http"
        src_filter:
         -
            range: "<your_own_value>"
        srcintf_filter:
         -
            interface_name: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        type: "static-nat"
        uuid: "<your_own_value>"

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)