HOWTO user ansible with fortios

 To use ansible with the fortiosapi module you need to install the module and ensure that you have it installed;

pip install fortiosapi 

pip list | grep forti

Your install output should look like the following;

example

Now you can write your 1st playbook. Here's a simple playbook that was defined to check status

And the output when it ran;

Here's a simple group creation;

If you have problem executing use the ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 while execution of the playbook

example;

    ANSIBLE_DEBUG=1 ansible-playbook fortios1.yml

you can also step thru the play using the switch --step when playing the playbook

Reference my earlier posts on fortios API and examples

https://socpuppet.blogspot.com/2018/07/howto-use-fortios-api-to-add-delete.html

https://socpuppet.blogspot.com/2019/09/howto-use-fortios-apiuser.html

Ken Felix 

NSE ( network security expert) and Route/Switching Engineer

kfelix  -----a----t---- socpuppets ---dot---com

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