Create bulk IP Addresses & Groups in Fortinet FortiGate firewall

Hello friends welcome to this video in this video I'm going to create bulk IP addresses and the address objects in 4948 firewall so let's navigate to the 40 gate Fest and navigate to the policy and objects and the addresses here you can see I'm having only three defaults IP addresses are there right and I'm having this notepad plus plus file in which I'm having almost 353 IP addresses in the few subnets like slash 24 and slash 32 right so we need to create a script and we need to be bulk imported but I have created already created a script in the PHP that will going to be create the automatic script for you so what you need to do you just need to be open this particular website and just go there okay now just again navigate to the notepad plus plus file and copy all the subnets are there just copy it and paste it there right and since uh we need to be create the group for all these uh IP addresses and the subnet you need to provide the group name I'm just I'm just providing block list underscore 14 0 1 20 23 right and just click on the submit now you can see the automated script is ready and we have passed all 353 IP addresses and the subnet given in the particular notepad plus plus file perfect copied from here paste in the notepad plus plus let's create the new file and the paste it there you can see this is how the 40 gate firewall accept the IP addresses and this is the script we have created right so just save it even even I would like to show you one more thing you can see the even let me let me just enable above up you can see the I have created two different groups to add 300 IP in each group so you don't need to be manually at them later just save this file let's go to the desktop and let's say this is the 40. txt it could be a text file no worry at all so I have shared this file perfect now just navigate to the our for ticket and navigate to the system and then advanced click on the configuration Scripts and click on the upload in your script just navigate to the desktop and whatever the text file we have created just upload it you can say 40. txt is successfully uploaded and click on the apply now just navigate to the policy and objects and the addresses here you can see 356 IP is there and three eyes so you like they are already created we have had 353 IP whatever uh provided in the this particular notepad plus plus file and now if you just navigate to about term you will find the some subnets as well like slash 32 so let's 24 so it is it is very easy way to add the bulk IP addresses into the 40 gate firewall I hope you like this video in case you have any doubt or any suggestion feel free to reach out me via the website or the YouTube comments thank you

Channel: Firewall Buddy

Views: 7,181

Keywords: fortinet, fortigate, automation

Id: M8edhdZ09DM

Length: 4min 27sec (267 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 14 2023