topic Re: how to export security policy in json format in Next-Generation Firewall Discussions

how to export security policy in json format

sshivanandap — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:58:56 GMT

Is their any why to export Panorama managed security Policies in JSON file

Re: how to export security policy in json format

JeremyGlaus — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:02:35 GMT

As far as I know, there is no way of exporting the policies as JSON. The supported data formats are CSV and PDF.

I would recommend to you to export the data as CSV files and convert it to JSON afterwards. There are many ways to archive that but I would avoid online tools since we don't know what they do with the uploaded data. As an alternative, you could create a little Python/Node.js Script or do the convertion directly in Excel (using Typescript).

Hope that helps a bit and I wish you good luck with your project!

Re: how to export security policy in json format

TomYoung — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:19:13 GMT

Hi @sshivanandap ,

The most simple way to "export" the security policy in JSON format is to run the command "show rulebase security" in CLI configuration mode and copy the response.

If you need to retrieve the security policy more than once, you can automate it with the REST API and also get the response in JSON format. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-panorama-api/get-started-with-the-pan-os-rest-api

The PAN-OS GUI is a human interface, and CSV and PDF are human-readable formats. The PAN-OS API (XML and REST) is a machine interface, and support machine-readable formats or XML and JSON. The reason that you want the format in JSON is most likely to run some type of automation against it. (I could be wrong.) If you are going to run automation against the data, you might as well automate the retrieval of the data.

Thanks,

Tom