Do commercial firewalls have API / Remote CLI?

Question

I mean firewalls like Checkpoint, Fortigate, sonicWALL etc. Do they have have API or Remote CLI ? can i, for example, send them a remote call to filter in\out a certain port? I Just want to know if that's possible, if you have examples that's awesome, but evena simple "yes, Checkpoint and soincwall does that" are great!

Answer 1

I only have some experience with Fortigate-firewalls. They usually have SSH.

This means you could use a command like this:

ssh <hostname_or_IP> -t "echo 'hello world'"

to sumbit your new rules to your firewall.