fortinet.fortios.fortios_user_tacacsplus module – Configure TACACS+ server entries in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This module is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.3.8).

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_tacacsplus.

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 tacacsplus 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>=2.15

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_tacacsplus

dictionary

Configure TACACS+ server entries.

authen_type

string

Allowed authentication protocols/methods.

Choices:

  • "mschap"

  • "chap"

  • "pap"

  • "ascii"

  • "auto"

authorization

string

Enable/disable TACACS+ authorization.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

interface

string

Specify outgoing interface to reach server. Source system.interface.name.

interface_select_method

string

Specify how to select outgoing interface to reach server.

Choices:

  • "auto"

  • "sdwan"

  • "specify"

key

string

Key to access the primary server.

name

string / required

TACACS+ server entry name.

port

integer

Port number of the TACACS+ server.

secondary_key

string

Key to access the secondary server.

secondary_server

string

Secondary TACACS+ server CN domain name or IP address.

server

string

Primary TACACS+ server CN domain name or IP address.

source_ip

string

Source IP address for communications to TACACS+ server.

status_ttl

integer

Time for which server reachability is cached so that when a server is unreachable, it will not be retried for at least this period of time (0 = cache disabled).

tertiary_key

string

Key to access the tertiary server.

tertiary_server

string

Tertiary TACACS+ server CN domain name or IP address.

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

  • The module supports check_mode.

Examples

- name: Configure TACACS+ server entries.
  fortinet.fortios.fortios_user_tacacsplus:
      vdom: "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      user_tacacsplus:
          authen_type: "mschap"
          authorization: "enable"
          interface: "<your_own_value> (source system.interface.name)"
          interface_select_method: "auto"
          key: "<your_own_value>"
          name: "default_name_8"
          port: "49"
          secondary_key: "<your_own_value>"
          secondary_server: "<your_own_value>"
          server: "192.168.100.40"
          source_ip: "84.230.14.43"
          status_ttl: "300"
          tertiary_key: "<your_own_value>"
          tertiary_server: "<your_own_value>"

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)