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XML API to get all policies using same Tags

jobik_PaloALto — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:23:23 GMT

Hi All,

Any suggestions on how to get all the policies from paloalto with same name using XML api call.

In the Web interface in the search bar if we search using the Tag, we get all the policies containing the tag names. However, in api interfaces not able to find a xpath to fetch all the policies using tag name.

Thanks in Advance.

Re: XML API to get all policies using same Tags

rhagen — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:00:08 GMT

There's actually a ton of flexibility in XPath queries. Try this to look for all security rules containing a tag member called "blocked":

/config/devices/entry[@name='localhost.localdomain']/vsys/entry[@name='vsys1']/rulebase/security/rules/entry[tag/member='blocked']

Here's a handy cheatsheet as well: https://devhints.io/xpath

Hope this helps!

Re: XML API to get all policies using same Tags

GLS_PaloAlto — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 06:43:44 GMT

Hey @rhagen,

do you know how to achieve same with REST-API by the chance?

Thanks

Re: XML API to get all policies using same Tags

rhagen — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:05:26 GMT

Unfortunately, the REST API doesn't support inline queries at this time.