Technical Tip: How to add a new entry for webfilter URL filter in FortiManager via the API

Description

This article describes how to add a new entry for a webfilter URL filter in FortiManager via the API.

Scope

FortiManager.

Solution

The API can be used to add a new entry to webfiler.urlfilter entries without overwriting the existing entries in the FortiManager ADOM database.

The following example shows the API Request which can be used to add a new entry (in this case, 'www.url-001.com') in the webfilter.urlfilter with the ID 1 in the Test ADOM.

The following is the API Request code:

{

  "id": 3,

  "method": "add",

  "params": [

    {

      "data": {

        "url": "www.url-001.com"

      },

      "url": "/pm/config/adom/Test/obj/webfilter/urlfilter/1/entries"

    }

  ],

  "session": "{{session}}"

}

Upon successful creation, the response should return 'OK'.

{
  "id": 3,
  "result": [
    {
      "data": {
        "id": 1
      },
      "status": {
        "code": 0,
        "message": "OK"
      },
      "url": "/pm/config/adom/Test/obj/webfilter/urlfilter/1/entries"
    }
  ]
}