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How to output cli hierarchical structure

erantanen — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:27:18 GMT

Is there a way to do a dump of the cli hierarchical structure to say a flat file?

Re: How to output cli hierarchical structure

holmesw — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:08:21 GMT

In Unix, you could just capture the output of the configuration display.

% script pan.log

% ssh pa-firewall -l username

....

> set cli pager off

> set config-output-format set

> show config running

....

> exit

% exit

exit

Script done, file is pan.log

This will capture the hierarchial configuration and is more readable than the XML configuration. Unfortunately, it will take some effort to manipulate this into the commands that would be entered at the command line.

Re: How to output cli hierarchical structure

Retired Member — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:44:25 GMT

By default if you are on CLI you can just run 'show config running' and it will output the full configs in hierarchical structure. Log the output and save as a TXT file. Is this what you are looking for? If not then perhaps you could elaborate more.

Regards

-Richard

Re: How to output cli hierarchical structure

erantanen — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:16:58 GMT

I was looking at the xml structures, and not sure how to build the xpath.

From the cli, if there was a dump command that could redirect the xml structure to a flat file to be used later.

Re: How to output cli hierarchical structure

bpappas — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:44:02 GMT

perhaps you could export the configuration to another server?

scp export configuration from running-config.xml to <username>@<hostname>:<path-to-file>

Any of the named configuration versions can be exported in this fashion.

-Benjamin

Re: How to output cli hierarchical structure

sergimunoz — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:03:10 GMT

If you are searching for commands to enter on the cli, you can export the config simply entering:

- set cli pager off <enter>

- set cli config-output-format set <enter>

- configure <enter>

- show <enter>

Regards