fortios_webfilter - Configure webfilter capabilities of FortiGate and FortiOS.¶

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS by allowing the user to configure webfilter feature. For now it is able to handle url and content filtering capabilities. The module uses FortiGate REST API internally to configure the device.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

fortiosapi>=0.9.8

Parameters ¶

Parameter			Choices/Defaults	Comments
host required				FortiOS or FortiGate ip adress.
password			Default:	FortiOS or FortiGate password.
username required				FortiOS or FortiGate username.
vdom			Default: root	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.
webfilter_content			Default: None	Container for a group of content-filtering entries that the FortiGate must act upon
	comment		Default: None	Optional comments.
	state required		Choices: absent present	Configures the intended state of this object on the FortiGate. When this value is set to present, the object is configured on the device and when this value is set to absent the object is removed from the device.
	id required			Id of content-filter list.
	name			Name of content-filter list.
	entries		Default: []	Content filter entries.
		status required	Choices: enable disable	Enable/disable banned word.
		lang required	Choices: western simch trach japanese korean french thai spanish cyrillic	Language of banned word.
		pattern-type required	Choices: wildcard regexp	Banned word pattern type. It can be a wildcard pattern or Perl regular expression.
		name required		Banned word.
		action required	Choices: block exempt	Block or exempt word when a match is found.
		score required		Score, to be applied every time the word appears on a web page.
webfilter_url			Default: None	Container for a group of url entries that the FortiGate must act upon
	comment		Default: None	Optional comments.
	state required		Choices: absent present	Configures the intended state of this object on the FortiGate. When this value is set to present, the object is configured on the device and when this value is set to absent the object is removed from the device.
	one-arm-ips-urlfilter		Choices: enable disable ←	Enable/disable DNS resolver for one-arm IPS URL filter operation.
	ip-addr-block		Choices: enable disable ←	Enable/disable blocking URLs when the hostname appears as an IP address.
	name required			Name of URL filter list.
	entries		Default: []	URL filter entries.
		status required	Choices: enable disable	Enable/disable this URL filter.
		web-proxy-profile required		Web proxy profile.
		referrer-host required		Referrer host name.
		url required		URL to be filtered.
		exempt required	Choices: av web-content activex-java-cookie dlp fortiguard range-block pass all	If action is set to exempt, select the security profile operations that exempt URLs skip. Separate multiple options with a space.
		action required	Choices: exempt block allow monitor	Action to take for URL filter matches.
		type required	Choices: simple regex wildcard	Filter type (simple, regex, or wildcard).
		id required		Id of URL.
	id required			Id of URL filter list.

Notes ¶

Note

Requires fortiosapi library developed by Fortinet
Run as a local_action in your playbook

Examples ¶

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
   host: "192.168.122.40"
   username: "admin"
   password: ""
   vdom: "root"
  tasks:
  - name: Configure url to be filtered by fortigate
    fortios_webfilter:
      host:  "{{  host }}"
      username: "{{  username}}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{  vdom }}"
      webfilter_url:
        state: "present"
        id: "1"
        name: "default"
        comment: "mycomment"
        one-arm-ips-url-filter: "disable"
        ip-addr-block: "disable"
        entries:
          - id: "1"
            url: "www.test1.com"
            type: "simple"
            action: "exempt"
            status: "enable"
            exempt: "pass"
            web-proxy-profile: ""
            referrrer-host: ""
          - id: "2"
            url: "www.test2.com"
            type: "simple"
            action: "exempt"
            status: "enable"
            exempt: "pass"
            web-proxy-profile: ""
            referrrer-host: ""


- hosts: localhost
  vars:
   host: "192.168.122.40"
   username: "admin"
   password: ""
   vdom: "root"
  tasks:
  - name: Configure web content filtering in fortigate
    fortios_webfilter:
      host:  "{{  host }}"
      username: "{{  username}}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{  vdom }}"
      webfilter_content:
        id: "1"
        name: "default"
        comment: ""
        entries:
          - name: "1"
            pattern-type: "www.test45.com"
            status: "enable"
            lang: "western"
            score: 40
            action: "block"
          - name: "2"
            pattern-type: "www.test46.com"
            status: "enable"
            lang: "western"
            score: 42
            action: "block"
        state: "present"

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
build string	always	Build number of the fortigate image Sample: 1547
http_method string	always	Last method used to provision the content into FortiGate Sample: PUT
http_status string	always	Last result given by FortiGate on last operation applied Sample: 200
mkey string	success	Master key (id) used in the last call to FortiGate Sample: key1
name string	always	Name of the table used to fulfill the request Sample: urlfilter
path string	always	Path of the table used to fulfill the request Sample: webfilter
revision string	always	Internal revision number Sample: 17.0.2.10658
serial string	always	Serial number of the unit Sample: FGVMEVYYQT3AB5352
status string	always	Indication of the operation's result Sample: success
vdom string	always	Virtual domain used Sample: root
version string	always	Version of the FortiGate Sample: v5.6.3

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)
Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)

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