PyFG

PyFG is a Python (2.7 tested, may work on other versions) package.

API for FortiOS or how to turn FortiOS into JunOS

Introduction

This API allows you to interact with a device runnine FortiOS in a sane way. With this API you can:

Connect to the device, retrieve the running config (the entire config or some blocks, whatever you want) and build a model
Build the same model from a file
Do changes in the candidate configuration locally
Create a candidate configuration from a file
Do a diff between the running config and the local candidate config
Generate the necessary commands to go from the running configuration to the candidate configuration

You can find the documentation on Read the Docs.

To install the library execute:

pip install pyfg

In the examples directory you will find different file with examples on how to use the API:

example1 - How to retrieve the configuration of a VDOM
example2 - How to get BGP information and navigate through it
example3 - How to load BGP configuration from a file (running.conf is emulating this step), load the candidate configuration from a file and then check the differences and show to get to the candidate configuration from the running one.
example4 - Similar as example3 but this time the changes are done programmatically instead of using a text file.
example5 - This example will do some changes, will try to commit them, will detect that something went wrong and it will finally rollback the changes.