XML API for Global Search

D.Verma502651 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 14:14:32 GMT

Hi All,
I am trying to test XML API for global search . I am trying to use for search security rule with given description .
ANy help for this.

Re: XML API for Global Search

BPry — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:10:35 GMT

@D.Verma502651,

This is doing a lot of parsing of the configuration directly and isn't a feature or function that you can interact with via the API. You would need to essentially replicate the functionality (probably in a more targeted manner to make it easier) and find any matches. I've included a very basic example below given your desire to look at security rulebase entries:

ExampleDescription = 'This is a test description' GetSecRulebase = requests.get("https://myFirewallUrl/api/?type=config&action=get&xpath=/config/devices/entry[@name='localhost.localdomain']/vsys/entry[@name='vsys1']/rulebase/security/rules",headers=headers) SecRulebase = xmltodict.parse(GetSecRulebase.content) SecEntries = SecRulebase['response']['result']['rules']['entry'] for SecEntry in SecEntries: entryName = SecEntry['@name'] entryDescription = SecEntry['description'] if entryDescription == str(ExampleDescription): print("Entry '" + str(entryName) + "' matches the ExampleDescription")

You could then obviously take this minimal example and update it to account for whatever you are actually attempting to do.

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