fortinet.fortios.fortios_wanopt_webcache module – Configure global Web cache settings 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_wanopt_webcache.

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 webcache 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"

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_webcache

dictionary

Configure global Web cache settings.

always_revalidate

string

Enable/disable revalidation of requested cached objects, which have content on the server, before serving it to the client.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

cache_by_default

string

Enable/disable caching content that lacks explicit caching policies from the server.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

string

Enable/disable caching cookies. Since cookies contain information for or about individual users, they not usually cached.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

cache_expired

string

Enable/disable caching type-1 objects that are already expired on arrival.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

default_ttl

integer

Default object expiry time . This only applies to those objects that do not have an expiry time set by the web server.

external

string

Enable/disable external Web caching.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

fresh_factor

integer

Frequency that the server is checked to see if any objects have expired (1 - 100). The higher the fresh factor, the less often the checks occur.

host_validate

string

Enable/disable validating “Host:” with original server IP.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ignore_conditional

string

Enable/disable controlling the behavior of cache-control HTTP 1.1 header values.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ignore_ie_reload

string

Enable/disable ignoring the PNC-interpretation of Internet Explorer”s Accept: / header.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ignore_ims

string

Enable/disable ignoring the if-modified-since (IMS) header.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

ignore_pnc

string

Enable/disable ignoring the pragma no-cache (PNC) header.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

max_object_size

integer

Maximum cacheable object size in kB (1 - 2147483 kb (2GB). All objects that exceed this are delivered to the client but not stored in the web cache.

max_ttl

integer

Maximum time an object can stay in the web cache without checking to see if it has expired on the server .

min_ttl

integer

Minimum time an object can stay in the web cache without checking to see if it has expired on the server .

neg_resp_time

integer

Time in minutes to cache negative responses or errors (0 - 4294967295).

reval_pnc

string

Enable/disable revalidation of pragma-no-cache (PNC) to address bandwidth concerns.

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 global Web cache settings.
    fortios_wanopt_webcache:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      wanopt_webcache:
        always_revalidate: "enable"
        cache_by_default: "enable"
        cache_cookie: "enable"
        cache_expired: "enable"
        default_ttl: "1440"
        external: "enable"
        fresh_factor: "100"
        host_validate: "enable"
        ignore_conditional: "enable"
        ignore_ie_reload: "enable"
        ignore_ims: "enable"
        ignore_pnc: "enable"
        max_object_size: "512000"
        max_ttl: "7200"
        min_ttl: "5"
        neg_resp_time: "0"
        reval_pnc: "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)