When I use the API to pull the device-state - am I getting the latest device state?

josilvia — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:51:10 GMT

In another article here, from 2014 (precambrian issues) - they broke down some of the insides of the device state config backup.

One of the commands listed said that I should issue the "save device state" command from the config cli - only - it's no longer there.

My script worked brilliantly for pulling the configs down on my Mac - just want to make sure I'm getting valid configs and don't have to do something else to get these accurately.

echo "Building list of firewalls to collect from panorama"
curl -X GET 'https://panorama/api/?type=op&cmd=<show><devices><all></all></devices></show>&key=Your_API_Key_Here=' -o devices.xml
xmllint --format devices.xml | grep -e "<ip-address>" | sed "s/ip-address//g;s/\<//g;s/\>//g;s/\///g;s/ //g" > iplist.txt
echo "Pulling device-state backups from all firewalls"
filename="iplist.txt"
while IFS= read fw;
do
curl -k -X GET 'https://'$fw'/api/?type=export&category=device-state&key=Your_API_Key_Here=' -o device_state_cfg-$fw.tgz
done < "$filename"

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When I use the API to pull the device-state - am I getting the latest device state?