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Filter security policies by no description

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I am trying to view only security policies that do not have a description.  I have found the following links but am unable to get the output i need.  I need to show rules with no description and for all the operations i must define a valuen and all i am after is a NUL.

 

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/traps/4-2/traps-endpoint-security-manager-admin/getti...

 

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/41/endpoint/endpoint-admin-guide/getting-started-with...

 

 

 

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@PaulParlevliet

So far I don't know if this is possible in the WebUI. But with the XML config and a XPATH query this definately can be done.

This is not possible in the GUI, you need to do a 'positive match' search for values, but a policy without description does not have a matching XML entry to match, so you can't search for an 'empty' xpath either (unless you do a search for the surrounding attributs:)

 

eg. 'with' description

                  <action>allow</action>
                  <description>General Internet Traffic</description>
                  <log-setting>default</log-setting>

'without' description

                  <action>allow</action>
                  <log-setting>default</log-setting>

 

 a (dirty) workaround in the GUI is to search for (description neq 'null') (or any other single word that is not used as a description). The resulting filtered view will show you all rules except the ones without description, so you can see which ones are missing by the missing rule numbers

 

Tom Piens
PANgurus - Strata specialist; config reviews, policy optimization
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