Execute commands without yes/no confirmation

[gineesh]

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.

[Markus_M]

Hi Gineesh,

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

Best regards,

Markus

[gineesh]

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]

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

[gineesh]

HI @pminarik 

Thank you for sharing those. Yes, those are valid but our issue was with direct upload to TFTP as well. I could not find the API section (not sure I missed) to backup to tftp using API or software upgrade from TFTP server.

Reg. fortios_monitor module, I am still working on that as there is a bug (?) with the selector. 
selector: 'system_config_backup'

When I execute it, module complains that the system_config_backupis not a valid option !!!

I will raise an issue in the repo anyway as I prefer the module way of doing it rather than passing raw commands to the fortios devices :)

Thank you again

[Markus_M]

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

[gineesh]

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 :)