fortinet.fortios.fortios_system_ddns module – Configure DDNS 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_system_ddns.

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 system feature and ddns 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

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_ddns

dictionary

Configure DDNS.

addr_type

string

Address type of interface address in DDNS update.

Choices:

  • "ipv4"

  • "ipv6"

bound_ip

string

Bound IP address.

clear_text

string

Enable/disable use of clear text connections.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "enable"

ddns_auth

string

Enable/disable TSIG authentication for your DDNS server.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "tsig"

ddns_domain

string

Your fully qualified domain name. For example, yourname.ddns.com.

ddns_key

string

DDNS update key (base 64 encoding).

ddns_keyname

string

DDNS update key name.

ddns_password

string

DDNS password.

ddns_server

string

Select a DDNS service provider.

Choices:

  • "dyndns.org"

  • "dyns.net"

  • "tzo.com"

  • "vavic.com"

  • "dipdns.net"

  • "now.net.cn"

  • "dhs.org"

  • "easydns.com"

  • "genericDDNS"

  • "FortiGuardDDNS"

  • "noip.com"

ddns_server_addr

list / elements=dictionary

Generic DDNS server IP/FQDN list.

addr

string / required

IP address or FQDN of the server.

ddns_server_ip

string

Generic DDNS server IP.

ddns_sn

string

DDNS Serial Number.

ddns_ttl

integer

Time-to-live for DDNS packets.

ddns_username

string

DDNS user name.

ddns_zone

string

Zone of your domain name (for example, DDNS.com).

ddnsid

integer / required

DDNS ID. see <a href=’#notes’>Notes</a>.

monitor_interface

list / elements=dictionary

Monitored interface.

interface_name

string / required

Interface name. Source system.interface.name.

server_type

string

Address type of the DDNS server.

Choices:

  • "ipv4"

  • "ipv6"

ssl_certificate

string

Name of local certificate for SSL connections. Source certificate.local.name.

update_interval

integer

DDNS update interval (60 - 2592000 sec, 0 means default).

use_public_ip

string

Enable/disable use of public IP address.

Choices:

  • "disable"

  • "enable"

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

  • We highly recommend using your own value as the ddnsid instead of 0, while ‘0’ is a special placeholder that allows the backend to assign the latest available number for the object, it does have limitations. Please find more details in Q&A.

  • 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 DDNS.
    fortios_system_ddns:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      system_ddns:
        addr_type: "ipv4"
        bound_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        clear_text: "disable"
        ddns_auth: "disable"
        ddns_domain: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_key: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_keyname: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_password: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_server: "dyndns.org"
        ddns_server_addr:
         -
            addr: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_server_ip: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_sn: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_ttl: "300"
        ddns_username: "<your_own_value>"
        ddns_zone: "<your_own_value>"
        ddnsid: "<you_own_value>"
        monitor_interface:
         -
            interface_name: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
        server_type: "ipv4"
        ssl_certificate: "<your_own_value> (source certificate.local.name)"
        update_interval: "300"
        use_public_ip: "disable"

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)