Connecting to the REST API

Container FortiOS provides a REST API to perform configuration and monitoring operations. The API provides a subset of the FortiOS API.

The API is accessible by default on port 443 at any of the container interfaces. If configured to require a token, all requests must include the API token.

For example, the following examples get the antivirus settings:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer rkMJd3SdLhb8UFBan987CnIrmPBLfaIj" https://localhost/api/v2/cmdb/antivirus/settings

curl https://localhost/api/v2/cmdb/antivirus/settings?access_token=rkMJd3SdLhb8UFBan987CnIrmPBLfaIj

To see the available options for each object, append ?action=schema to the url.

For full details on the available API actions and access, see the Container FortiOS REST API documentation on FNDN.