fortinet.fortios.fortios_web_proxy_global module – Configure Web proxy global 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_web_proxy_global.

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 web_proxy feature and global 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"

web_proxy_global

dictionary

Configure Web proxy global settings.

fast_policy_match

string

Enable/disable fast matching algorithm for explicit and transparent proxy policy.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

forward_proxy_auth

string

Enable/disable forwarding proxy authentication headers.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

forward_server_affinity_timeout

integer

Period of time before the source IP”s traffic is no longer assigned to the forwarding server (6 - 60 min).

ldap_user_cache

string

Enable/disable LDAP user cache for explicit and transparent proxy user.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

learn_client_ip

string

Enable/disable learning the client”s IP address from headers.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

learn_client_ip_from_header

list / elements=string

Learn client IP address from the specified headers.

Choices:

  • "true-client-ip"

  • "x-real-ip"

  • "x-forwarded-for"

learn_client_ip_srcaddr

list / elements=dictionary

Source address name (srcaddr or srcaddr6 must be set).

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name.

learn_client_ip_srcaddr6

list / elements=dictionary

IPv6 Source address name (srcaddr or srcaddr6 must be set).

name

string / required

Address name. Source firewall.address6.name firewall.addrgrp6.name.

log_forward_server

string

Enable/disable forward server name logging in forward traffic log.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

max_message_length

integer

Maximum length of HTTP message, not including body (16 - 256 Kbytes).

max_request_length

integer

Maximum length of HTTP request line (2 - 64 Kbytes).

max_waf_body_cache_length

integer

Maximum length of HTTP messages processed by Web Application Firewall (WAF) (10 - 1024 Kbytes).

proxy_fqdn

string

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) that clients connect to to connect to the explicit web proxy.

src_affinity_exempt_addr

list / elements=string

IPv4 source addresses to exempt proxy affinity.

src_affinity_exempt_addr6

list / elements=string

IPv6 source addresses to exempt proxy affinity.

ssl_ca_cert

string

SSL CA certificate for SSL interception. Source vpn.certificate.local.name.

ssl_cert

string

SSL certificate for SSL interception. Source vpn.certificate.local.name.

strict_web_check

string

Enable/disable strict web checking to block web sites that send incorrect headers that don”t conform to HTTP 1.1.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

tunnel_non_http

string

Enable/disable allowing non-HTTP traffic. Allowed non-HTTP traffic is tunneled.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

unknown_http_version

string

Action to take when an unknown version of HTTP is encountered: reject, allow (tunnel), or proceed with best-effort.

Choices:

  • "reject"

  • "tunnel"

  • "best-effort"

webproxy_profile

string

Name of the web proxy profile to apply when explicit proxy traffic is allowed by default and traffic is accepted that does not match an explicit proxy policy. Source web-proxy.profile.name.

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 Web proxy global settings.
    fortios_web_proxy_global:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      web_proxy_global:
        fast_policy_match: "enable"
        forward_proxy_auth: "enable"
        forward_server_affinity_timeout: "30"
        ldap_user_cache: "enable"
        learn_client_ip: "enable"
        learn_client_ip_from_header: "true-client-ip"
        learn_client_ip_srcaddr:
         -
            name: "default_name_10 (source firewall.address.name firewall.addrgrp.name)"
        learn_client_ip_srcaddr6:
         -
            name: "default_name_12 (source firewall.address6.name firewall.addrgrp6.name)"
        log_forward_server: "enable"
        max_message_length: "32"
        max_request_length: "8"
        max_waf_body_cache_length: "32"
        proxy_fqdn: "<your_own_value>"
        src_affinity_exempt_addr: "<your_own_value>"
        src_affinity_exempt_addr6: "<your_own_value>"
        ssl_ca_cert: "<your_own_value> (source vpn.certificate.local.name)"
        ssl_cert: "<your_own_value> (source vpn.certificate.local.name)"
        strict_web_check: "enable"
        tunnel_non_http: "enable"
        unknown_http_version: "reject"
        webproxy_profile: "<your_own_value> (source web-proxy.profile.name)"

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)