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Execute commands without yes/no confirmation

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Dear experts,

any options to execute the command without confirmation?

eg:

FG01 # execute reboot This operation will reboot the system ! Do you want to continue? (y/n)

How to pass the `yes` to the command line itself instead of interactive input?

Thanks in advance.

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Markus_M

Staff & Editor

Hi Gineesh,

what is the reason for this? Automated reboot via SSH script?

Best regards,

Markus

Best regards, Markus

gineeshAuthor

New Member

yes, for programmatic operations which are not possible using API's.
Like image update, reboot etc.

We are trying API as well in parallel.

pminarik

Staff

For the sake of completeness, REST API does support reboot and upgrade operations:

POST /api/v2/monitor/system/os/reboot
{"event-log-message": "optional comment"}

POST /api/v2/monitor/system/firmware/upgrade
{"source": "upload,
"file_content": "base-64-encoding-of-the-firmware-image"}

Or since you mentioned ansible:

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/fortinet/fortios/fortios_monitor_module.html

Relevant "selectors":

- reboot.system.os

- upgrade.system.firmware

Markus_M

Staff & Editor

Not being a bash expert, but I use something like this to simulate input on the FortiGate shell:

#!/bin/sh
FGTVAR="/root/scripts/fortigate.var"

FSSH="ssh admin@192.168.200.1"

echo "config vdom" >> $FGTVAR
echo "edit root" >> $FGTVAR
etc...
echo "end" >> $FGTVAR
echo "exit" >> $FGTVAR
sleep 1
$FSSH < $FGTVAR
exit 0

You might be able to adapt it as such:

#!/bin/sh
FGTVAR="/root/scripts/fortigate.var"

FSSH="ssh admin@192.168.200.1"

echo "exec reboot" >> $FGTVAR
echo "y" >> $FGTVAR
sleep 1
$FSSH < $FGTVAR
exit 0

Best regards,

Markus

Best regards, Markus

gineeshAuthor

New Member

Thanks a lot @Markus_M
I was trying last night and found a "Y" on next line is working now ! (I tried this several times last night and it was not working. strange !)

See my Ansible code now

- name: FortiGate Update Software   raw: |         execute restore image tftp {{ fortios_image_filename }} {{ tftp_server }}           Y   register: update_status   ignore_errors: yes

Thank you so much for advising with that shell and trigger some spark :)

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