topic Re: FTD CLI with Ansible in Network Security

FTD CLI with Ansible

mark.ryan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:08:29 GMT

Hi,

All our FTDs are managed by the FMC so the FTD API is out. The FTD ansible module is deprecated. I can't get the info I need from the FMC API so seems I'm stuck with FTD CLI.

Has anyone had any luck connecting via Ansible command or any other method? I can't connect I've tried a number of different settings. Disabling host key checking etc.

I had our dev platform working with a custom pyats ansible plugin but that doesn't work on prod. Trying to avoid writing custom python plugins.

Re: FTD CLI with Ansible

Kasun Bandara — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:18:16 GMT

@mark.ryan hi, found this via 1st search. check if this helps. i am not much tested FMC. but ma be this gives some clues

https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/FMCAnsible

Re: FTD CLI with Ansible

mark.ryan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:01:56 GMT

Hi,

That is a shim for the FMC API which as above doesn't give the data I need.

Thanks Mark