Technical Tip: How to create new administrator for FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer using JSON API
Description
This article describes how to create a new administrator for FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer using API & Postman.
Scope
FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer.
Solution
Following is the base URL for FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer API request:
POST : https://{{host}}/jsonrpc
Before taking any of the steps below, obtain the JSON API Session ID using the following API request.
Note: The session ID will be used in the rest of the JSON API request.
{ "id": 1, "method": "exec", "params": [{ "data": { "user": "{{admin}}", "passwd": "{{password}}" }, "url": "/sys/login/user" }] }
Scenario 1: Create a single administrator:
Username: fpc1.
Password: Fortinet@123.
Profile: Super_User.
{ "method": "set", "params": [ { "data": [ { "userid": "fpc1", "password": "Fortinet@123", "profileid": "Super_User" } ], "url": "/cli/global/system/admin/user" } ], "session": "{{session}}", "verbose": 1, "id": 1 }
Scenario 2: Create multiple administrators based on specific requirements:
- Username.
- Password.
- Profile.
- Specific adom access.
- JSON-API permission.
{ "method": "set", "params": [ { "data": [ { "userid": "fpc2", "password": "Fortinet@123", "adom-access": "specify", "adom": [ { "adom-name": "testtADOM" } ], "profileid": "Standard_User" }, { "userid": "fpc1", "password": "Fortinet@123", "rpc-permit": "read-write", "profileid": "Super_User" } ], "url": "/cli/global/system/admin/user" } ], "session": "{{session}}", "verbose": 1, "id": 1 }
Here is the administrator list in the GUI once the API is run successfully:
Here's the JSON Request to get the administrator list via API:
{ "method": "get", "params": [ { "url": "/cli/global/system/admin/user" } ], "session": "{{session}}", "verbose": 1, "id": 1 }
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