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Stupid question, but how to show all vsys in CLI with one command?

Yunus_Salem — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:49:29 GMT

Hey guys, this may be a stupid question but I just cannot find the appropriate command for this after googling for nearly an hour. I just want to display all vsys via CLI in one command without the need of "?". Something like show virtual-system all or so. Is this even possible?

Re: Stupid question, but how to show all vsys in CLI with one command?

PavelK — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:10:51 GMT

Hello @Yunus_Salem

from the documentation cli command hierarchy I do not see any command that will fulfil your requirement, however I think it is possible with API. Could you check whether this works (I do not have a device with vsys license to test it with)?

curl -X GET "https://<firewall>/api/?key=<api_key>&type=op&cmd=<show><vsys></vsys>"

Kind Regards

Pavel

Re: Stupid question, but how to show all vsys in CLI with one command?

TomYoung — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:23:05 GMT

Hi @Yunus_Salem ,

You can use the command "set system setting target-vsys ?" and see the virtual systems listed as options.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-cli-quick-start/cli-cheat-sheets/cli-cheat-sheet-vsys

Thanks,

Tom

Re: Stupid question, but how to show all vsys in CLI with one command?

Laurent_Dormond — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:55:44 GMT

Hello,

Just have a question regarding this command :

We recently upgraded our clusters to PanOS 11.1 and now when using this command, it doesn't display the vsys name anymore :

> set system setting target-vsys
none none
vsys1 vsys1
vsys2 vsys2
vsys3 vsys3

... ...
<value> <value>

In PanOS 10.2 the vsys names were displayed along with the vsys number

How to easily link vsys number and vsys name?

Indeed, when you want to modify/get settings related to a particular vsys you need to know in which vsys context you are...

Regards,