![]() ![]() Yes, I could have used already built library, but I just don’t like the principle of it. ![]() Because I am tired of having to deal with different carriage return symbols between portX interfaces and mgmtX interfaces. Why REST?īecause I am tired of screen scraping. That’s the part I’ll concentrate on in this post. I already had automation that would generate configuration for all the devices by pulling IPAM (I may write a different post about that at a later time), so I just needed something to push that config to devices. Luckily for me, Fortigate did roll out pretty good API in the code 5.4, which can be used to configure most (if not all) of the parameters of the device. Lately I have been growing tired of using CLI to configure network devices, so when I was faced with the project to deploy about 100 of Fortigate firewalls, I have decided that I am not that interested in copy-pasting configs via CLI and I want to do something different. ![]()
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