fortinet.fortios.fortios_web_proxy_forward_server_group – Configure a forward server group consisting or multiple forward servers. Supports failover and load balancing in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiGate.

Note

This plugin is part of the fortinet.fortios collection (version 2.1.2).

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.

To use it in a playbook, specify: fortinet.fortios.fortios_web_proxy_forward_server_group.

New in version 2.10: of fortinet.fortios

Synopsis

This module is able to configure a FortiGate or FortiOS (FOS) device by allowing the user to set and modify web_proxy feature and forward_server_group 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>=2.9.0

Parameters

Parameter			Choices/Defaults	Comments
access_token string				Token-based authentication. Generated from GUI of Fortigate.
enable_log boolean			Choices: no ← yes	Enable/Disable logging for task.
state string / required			Choices: present absent	Indicates whether to create or remove the object.
vdom string			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.
web_proxy_forward_server_group dictionary				Configure a forward server group consisting or multiple forward servers. Supports failover and load balancing.
	affinity string		Choices: enable disable	Enable/disable affinity, attaching a source-ip"s traffic to the assigned forwarding server until the forward-server-affinity-timeout is reached (under web-proxy global).
	group_down_option string		Choices: block pass	Action to take when all of the servers in the forward server group are down: block sessions until at least one server is back up or pass sessions to their destination.
	ldb_method string		Choices: weighted least-session active-passive	Load balance method: weighted or least-session.
	name string / required			Configure a forward server group consisting one or multiple forward servers. Supports failover and load balancing.
	server_list list / elements=string			Add web forward servers to a list to form a server group. Optionally assign weights to each server.
		name string / required		Forward server name. Source web-proxy.forward-server.name.
		weight integer		Optionally assign a weight of the forwarding server for weighted load balancing (1 - 100)

Notes

Note

Legacy fortiosapi has been deprecated, httpapi is the preferred way to run playbooks

Examples

- hosts: fortigates
  collections:
    - fortinet.fortios
  connection: httpapi
  vars:
   vdom: "root"
   ansible_httpapi_use_ssl: yes
   ansible_httpapi_validate_certs: no
   ansible_httpapi_port: 443
  tasks:
  - name: Configure a forward server group consisting or multiple forward servers. Supports failover and load balancing.
    fortios_web_proxy_forward_server_group:
      vdom:  "{{ vdom }}"
      state: "present"
      access_token: "<your_own_value>"
      web_proxy_forward_server_group:
        affinity: "enable"
        group_down_option: "block"
        ldb_method: "weighted"
        name: "default_name_6"
        server_list:
         -
            name: "default_name_8 (source web-proxy.forward-server.name)"
            weight: "9"

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: id
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

Authors

Link Zheng (@chillancezen)
Jie Xue (@JieX19)
Hongbin Lu (@fgtdev-hblu)
Frank Shen (@frankshen01)
Miguel Angel Munoz (@mamunozgonzalez)
Nicolas Thomas (@thomnico)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/fortinet/fortios/fortios_web_proxy_forward_server_group_module.html

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