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convert configuration from set syntax to xml

catalin_patru — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:33:51 GMT

dear community,

please help with any idees how can convert a config file with "set" syntax into xml format.

i know that i can extract the config direct in xml format 🙂 i need this solution to migrate some configuration that care only available in "set" format ..don;t ask me why 🙂

many thank for all your feedbacks

Re: convert configuration from set syntax to xml

BPry — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:23:15 GMT

@catalin_patru,

Unless you are well versed in the configuration file itself and can manually convert them yourself, I'm thinking your best option is to issue the set commands on another box and look at the diff to see exactly what the set commands are actually doing.

Kind of confused on why you would ever need to convert set into XML while not having access to the base XML that generated the set commands or required use of an XML file? If I couldn't readily convert the configuration into XML from set by hand, why wouldn't you just issue the set commands and export the candidate configuration so that you had the complete XML file?

Re: convert configuration from set syntax to xml

catalin_patru — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 06:24:59 GMT

i can extract the config in xml if i have access to the firewall..but i don't have access , i can benefit only of a "set" config. never the less, i find it hard to believe that palo alto does not have and does not make available a tool that can convert a config from a certain format to another format.. both being configurations generated from their OS.