Technical Tip: Ansible too many attempts

In case the ansible script contains a single task or multiple tasks that can take around 5 minutes or more to complete, and a REST API admin is configured with traditional credentials of user and password, then users will observe the logs below on FortiGate.

On the ansible script, the error displayed will be '429 Too Many Requests'. This occurs because FortiGate will automatically apply a rate limit when the amount of HTTP requests received reaches around the 5-minute mark of the script continuously running, even though previous tasks run successfully.

The solution is to use a REST API administrator API Key following the documentation below and make sure the API Key is placed into the host file attribute fortios_access_token plus inside the task or YAML files depending on the programming structure.

The article: Technical Tip: Application of Ansible on FortiGate contains a few structural examples.

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