fortinet.fortimanager.fmgr_generic – Build and send generic FortiManager API request.

• Synopsis
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• This module is for generic fortimanager requests. it receives raw json-rpc data, and sends it to fortimanager, finally returns the response to users.
• This module also rely on fortimanager httpapi plugin as the transport.
• the payload doesn’t include session, the httpapi plugin will automatically fill the session later.
• the username and password is not managed by the module, but by the plugin.

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- hosts: fortimanager01
  connection: httpapi
  vars:
    adom: "root"
    ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: True
    ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: False
    ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
    -   name: 'login a user'
        fmgr_generic:
             method: 'exec'
             params:
                - url: 'sys/login/user'
                  data:
                   - user: 'APIUser'
                     passwd: 'Fortinet1!e'
    -   name: 'login another user'
        fmgr_generic:
             json: |
                  {
                   "method":"exec",
                   "params":[
                    {
                         "url":"sys/login/user",
                         "data":[
                            {
                               "user":"APIUser",
                               "passwd":"Fortinet1!"
                            }
                          ]
                     }
                    ]
                  }

Return Values

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

Authors

• Link Zheng (@zhengl)
• Jie Xue (@JieX19)
• Frank Shen (@fshen01)
• Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)