Difference between revisions of "Exporting rules to Excel"

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#In the Web GUI select Device > Setup > Operations and click on Export Named Configuration Snapshot
 
#In the Web GUI select Device > Setup > Operations and click on Export Named Configuration Snapshot
 
 
#From the pop-up menu select running-config.xml, and click OK
 
#From the pop-up menu select running-config.xml, and click OK
 
 
#Now edit the xml file and remove all tags '''until the first''' <security>, and also remove all tags '''after''' </security>
 
#Now edit the xml file and remove all tags '''until the first''' <security>, and also remove all tags '''after''' </security>
  

Revision as of 20:28, 20 September 2016


  1. In the Web GUI select Device > Setup > Operations and click on Export Named Configuration Snapshot
  2. From the pop-up menu select running-config.xml, and click OK
  3. Now edit the xml file and remove all tags until the first <security>, and also remove all tags after </security>
  1. Add a header: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  1. Now do a find and replace option for keyword <member>, replace <member> with blank (nothing)
  1. Save as policy.xml
  1. Open a new Excel Spreadsheet and click on MenuBar DATA > From Other Sources > From XML Data import
  1. To improve visualisation, replace “ “ (space) with blank (nothing)
  1. To export Address-Groups, generate a new copy of running-config.xml and save it as address-group.xml.
  1. Search for tag <address-group> and delete all the text before this tag and also delete all the text after the tag </address-group>