There are two models for Fortinet devices:

• fortigate: for the FortiGate firewalls
• fortios: for VM-Based appliances (FortiManager, FortiADC, FortiAnalyzer...)

Notes for both models

Configuration changes / hiding passwords

Fortigate and Fortios re-encrypt their passwords every time the configuration is shown. This results in a lot of apparent configuration changes on every pull.

To avoid this, you have two options:

• remove secrets
• save significant changes only

Remove secrets

If you don't want to have a new version every time the configuration is downloaded, you can hide all secrets. Beware that you won't have a full backup, as all passwords will be replaced with

models:
  fortigate:
    vars:
      remove_secret: true

Save significant changes only

You can store the configuration only on significant changes by setting the variable output_store_mode to on_significant. On FortiGate and FortiOS, this prevents Oxidized from saving a configuration when there were only changes to the encrypted passwords. Beware that you won't have the last backup if you only changed a password.

vars:
  output_store_mode: on_significant

Notes for the FortiGate model

Create user oxidized with ED25519 public key

You can use a user/password for retrieving the configuration or use a SSH public key:

config system admin
edit oxidized
set trusthost1 192.0.2.1 255.255.255.255
set accprofile "super_admin_readonly"
set ssh-public-key1 "ssh-ed25519 AAAAThisIsJustAnExampleKey_UseYourOxidizedPUBLICKEY oxidized@librenms"
end

config vs. full config

On FortiGate, you can get a configuration without default values (show) or including all default values (show full-configuration).

The full configuration can be long and may cause timeouts. Starting with with oxidized 0.30.1, the default is to get the short configuration.

If you need the full configuration, you can activate it in oxidized config file:

models:
  fortigate:
    vars:
      fullconfig: true

Autoupdate

You can get the result of diagnose autoupdate version by setting the variable fortigate_autoupdate to true:

vars:
  fortigate_autoupdate: true

Note that the variable fortios_autoupdate is deprecated and will be removed in a future Version of Oxidized. Use fortigate_autoupdate instead.