fortinet.fortios.fortios_firewall_address6 module – Configure IPv6 firewall addresses in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.3.4).

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_address6.

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 address6 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>=2.14

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_address6

dictionary

Configure IPv6 firewall addresses.

cache_ttl

integer

Minimal TTL of individual IPv6 addresses in FQDN cache.

color

integer

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

comment

string

Comment.

country

string

IPv6 addresses associated to a specific country.

end_ip

string

Final IP address (inclusive) in the range for the address (format: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx).

end_mac

string

Last MAC address in the range.

epg_name

string

Endpoint group name.

fabric_object

string

Security Fabric global object setting.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

fqdn

string

Fully qualified domain name.

host

string

Host Address.

host_type

string

Host type.

Choices:

  • "any"

  • "specific"

ip6

string

IPv6 address prefix (format: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/xxx).

list

list / elements=dictionary

IP address list.

ip

string / required

IP.

net_id

string

Network ID.

obj_id

string

Object ID.

macaddr

list / elements=dictionary

Multiple MAC address ranges.

macaddr

string / required

MAC address ranges <start>[-<end>] separated by space.

name

string / required

Address name.

obj_id

string

Object ID for NSX.

route_tag

integer

route-tag address.

sdn

string

SDN. Source system.sdn-connector.name.

Choices:

  • "nsx"

sdn_tag

string

SDN Tag.

start_ip

string

First IP address (inclusive) in the range for the address (format: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx).

start_mac

string

First MAC address in the range.

subnet_segment

list / elements=dictionary

IPv6 subnet segments.

name

string / required

Name.

type

string

Subnet segment type.

Choices:

  • "any"

  • "specific"

value

string

Subnet segment value.

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.

template

string

IPv6 address template. Source firewall.address6-template.name.

tenant

string

Tenant.

type

string

Type of IPv6 address object .

Choices:

  • "ipprefix"

  • "iprange"

  • "fqdn"

  • "geography"

  • "dynamic"

  • "template"

  • "mac"

  • "route-tag"

uuid

string

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

visibility

string

Enable/disable the visibility of the object in 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 IPv6 firewall addresses.
    fortios_firewall_address6:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      firewall_address6:
        cache_ttl: "0"
        color: "0"
        comment: "Comment."
        country: "<your_own_value>"
        end_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        end_mac: "<your_own_value>"
        epg_name: "<your_own_value>"
        fabric_object: "enable"
        fqdn: "<your_own_value>"
        host: "myhostname"
        host_type: "any"
        ip6: "<your_own_value>"
        list:
         -
            ip: "<your_own_value>"
            net_id: "<your_own_value>"
            obj_id: "<your_own_value>"
        macaddr:
         -
            macaddr: "<your_own_value>"
        name: "default_name_21"
        obj_id: "<your_own_value>"
        route_tag: "0"
        sdn: "nsx"
        sdn_tag: "<your_own_value>"
        start_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        start_mac: "<your_own_value>"
        subnet_segment:
         -
            name: "default_name_29"
            type: "any"
            value: "<your_own_value>"
        tagging:
         -
            category: "<your_own_value> (source system.object-tagging.category)"
            name: "default_name_34"
            tags:
             -
                name: "default_name_36 (source system.object-tagging.tags.name)"
        template: "<your_own_value> (source firewall.address6-template.name)"
        tenant: "<your_own_value>"
        type: "ipprefix"
        uuid: "<your_own_value>"
        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)