How-to: Create recurring scripts on a FortiGate

Not many people realise that you can create recurring scripts on the FortiGate to run any command you'd like. These can range from rebooting the FortiGate to automating backups to an external server.

In this blog we'll be creating a script to backup the FortiGate's configuration to an external FTP server every day.


config system auto-script
edit daily-backup
set interval 86400 << how often this runs in seconds (86400 is 1 day)
set repeat 0 << repeat forever
set start auto << automatically start it
set script 'execute backup full-config ftp fgt-backup.conf 192.168.1.1 username password'
end

How-to: Configure Static IP Address in TC Linux

1. Create a new file (/opt/eth0.sh) and add the interface IP details below (changing IP, broadcast, and gateway):

#!/bin/sh

ifconfig eth0 10.0.1.219 

netmask 255.255.255.0 

broadcast 10.0.1.255 up

route add default gw 10.0.1.254

2. Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x /opt/eth0.sh

3. Add this line to the end of /opt/bootload.sh

/opt/eth0.sh &

4. Add this line to the end of /opt/.filetool.lst

opt/eth0.sh

5. Save changes to disk

sudo filetool.sh -b

6. Reboot

sudo reboot