Overview

FortiSOAR™ provides you with a number of pre-installed connectors or built-ins, such as the BPMN or Database connectors that you can use within FortiSOAR™ playbooks, as a connector step, and perform automated operations. These connectors are bundled and named based on the type of operations the connectors can perform. For example, the Database connector would contain actions that you can perform with respect to the database like querying the database. It is easy to extend and enhance these connectors.

Apart from the FortiSOAR™ Built-in connectors, Fortinet also provides a number of connectors for popular integrations like SIEMs, such as FortiSIEM, Splunk, etc., and Ticketing systems such as Jira. You can see a list of published connectors on the FortiSOAR Connectors Documentation site.

The process of installing, configuring, and using connectors is defined in the Introduction to connectors chapter in the "Connectors Guide", which is part of the FortiSOAR™ documentation or see the Installing a connector and Configuring a connector articles.

FortiSOAR™ Built-in connectors are upgraded by default with a FortiSOAR™ upgrade. Use the Content Hub to upgrade your connectors to the latest version, in case you want to only upgrade the connectors and not FortiSOAR™. For more information on the connector store, see the Introduction to connectors chapter and see the FortiSOAR Built-in connectors article.

Important: Before you upgrade your FortiSOAR™ version, it is highly recommended that you take a backup of your FortiSOAR™ Built-in connector's (SSH, IMAP, Database, etc.) configuration since the configuration of your FortiSOAR™ Built-in connectors might be reset if there are changes to the configuration parameters across versions.

BPMN

Use the BPMN connector to convert BPMN workflows that are created in tools such as Flowable or Camuda to FortiSOAR™ playbooks. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is a tool using which you can create flowcharts, and these flowcharts tend to be specific to cybersecurity workflows. Therefore, this feature provides you with the advantage of importing your BPMN workflows and directly converting them into FortiSOAR playbooks, without the need to again create the same workflow in FortiSOAR.

NOTE: This connector is ready to use, and you do not need to configure this connector. For more information on BPMN workflows and how they can be imported and used as FortiSOAR™ playbooks, see the "Importing the BPMN Shareable Workflows as FortiSOAR™ Playbooks" topic in the Playbooks Overview chapter in the "Playbooks Guide", which is part of the FortiSOAR™ product documentation.

Version information

Connector Version: 1.0.3

Authored By: Fortinet.

Certified: Yes

Release Notes for version 1.0.3

Following enhancements have been made to the BPMN connector in version 1.0.3:

• Added the 'Documentation' link on the Connector configuration popup, which opens the documentation for this version of the connector.

NOTE: For more information on previous releases of the BPMN connector, see the BPMN Connector v1.0.2 document.

Actions supported by the connector

The following automated operations can be included in playbooks: