XML API for Global Search

[D.Verma502651]

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.

[BPry · Accepted solution]

@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.