fortinet.fortios.fortios_user_peer module – Configure peer users 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_user_peer.

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 user feature and peer 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"

user_peer

dictionary

Configure peer users.

ca

string

Name of the CA certificate. Source vpn.certificate.ca.name.

cn

string

Peer certificate common name.

cn_type

string

Peer certificate common name type.

Choices:

  • "string"

  • "email"

  • "FQDN"

  • "ipv4"

  • "ipv6"

ldap_mode

string

Mode for LDAP peer authentication.

Choices:

  • "password"

  • "principal-name"

ldap_password

string

Password for LDAP server bind.

ldap_server

string

Name of an LDAP server defined under the user ldap command. Performs client access rights check. Source user.ldap.name.

ldap_username

string

Username for LDAP server bind.

mandatory_ca_verify

string

Determine what happens to the peer if the CA certificate is not installed. Disable to automatically consider the peer certificate as valid.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

name

string / required

Peer name.

ocsp_override_server

string

Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server for certificate retrieval. Source vpn.certificate.ocsp-server.name.

passwd

string

Peer”s password used for two-factor authentication.

subject

string

Peer certificate name constraints.

two_factor

string

Enable/disable two-factor authentication, applying certificate and password-based authentication.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

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 peer users.
    fortios_user_peer:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      user_peer:
        ca: "<your_own_value> (source vpn.certificate.ca.name)"
        cn: "<your_own_value>"
        cn_type: "string"
        ldap_mode: "password"
        ldap_password: "<your_own_value>"
        ldap_server: "<your_own_value> (source user.ldap.name)"
        ldap_username: "<your_own_value>"
        mandatory_ca_verify: "enable"
        name: "default_name_11"
        ocsp_override_server: "<your_own_value> (source vpn.certificate.ocsp-server.name)"
        passwd: "<your_own_value>"
        subject: "<your_own_value>"
        two_factor: "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)