fortios_facts – Get facts about fortios devices

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status

Synopsis

• Collects facts from network devices running the fortios operating system. This module places the facts gathered in the fact tree keyed by the respective resource name. This facts module will only collect those facts which user specified in playbook.

Requirements

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

• fortiosapi>=0.9.8

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    host: "192.168.122.40"
    username: "admin"
    password: ""
    vdom: "root"
    ssl_verify: "False"

  tasks:
  - name: gather basic system status facts
    fortios_facts:
      host:  "{{ host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      gather_subset:
        - fact: 'system_status_select'

  - name: gather all physical interfaces status facts
    fortios_facts:
      host:  "{{ host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      gather_subset:
        - fact: 'system_interface_select'

  - name: gather gather all physical and vlan interfaces status facts
    fortios_facts:
      host:  "{{ host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      gather_subset:
        - fact: 'system_interface_select'
          filters:
            - include_vlan: true

  - name: gather basic system info and physical interface port3 status facts
    fortios_facts:
      host:  "{{ host }}"
      username: "{{ username }}"
      password: "{{ password }}"
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      gather_subset:
        - fact: 'system_status_select'
        - fact: 'system_interface_select'
          filters:
            - interface_name: 'port3'

Return Values

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

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Don Yao (@fortinetps)
• Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)
• Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)