Exporting rules to Excel

1. In the Web GUI select Device > Setup > Operations and click on Export Named Configuration Snapshot

1. From the pop-up menu select running-config.xml, and click OK

1. 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>