CLI Scripts

To upload bulk CLI commands and scripts, go to System > Config > Advanced.

Scripts are text files containing CLI command sequences. Scripts can be used to deploy identical configurations to many devices. For example, if all of your devices use identical security policies, you can enter the commands required to create the security policies in a script, and then deploy the script to all the devices which should use those same settings.

Use a text editor such as Notepad or other application that creates simple text files. Enter the commands in sequence, with each line as one command, similar to examples throughout the FortiOS documentation set.

If you are using a FortiGate unit that is not remotely managed by a FortiManager unit or the FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service, the scripts you upload are executed and discarded. If you want to execute a script more than once, you must keep a copy on your management PC.

If your FortiGate unit is configured to use a FortiManager unit, you can upload your scripts to the FortiManager unit, and run them from any FortiGate unit configured to use the FortiManager unit. If you upload a script directly to a FortiGate unit, it is executed and discarded.

If your FortiGate unit is configured to use FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service, scripts you upload are executed and stored. You can run uploaded scripts from any FortiGate unit configured with your FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service account. The uploaded script files appear on the FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service portal web site.

Uploading script files

After you have created a script file, you can then upload it through System > Config > Advanced. When a script is uploaded, it is automatically executed.

Commands that require the FortiGate unit to reboot when entered in the command line will also force a reboot if included in a script.

To execute a script

1. Go to System > Config > Advanced.

2. Verify that Upload Bulk CLI Command File is selected.

3. Select Browse to locate the script file.

4. Select Apply.

If the FortiGate unit is not configured for remote management, or if it is configured to use a FortiManager unit, uploaded scripts are discarded after execution. Save script files to your management PC if you want to execute them again later.

If the FortiGate unit is configured to use the FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service, the script file is saved to the remote server for later reuse. You can view the script or run it from the FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service portal web site.