I have imported the config of an existing 7080 (PANOS 8.1.13) into a new expedition project to see if i can analyze duplicate objects that can be potentially removed.
I'm not seeing what I expected though. In expedition there shows no Address Objects, Address Groups, Security Policies, very few Services (only 3) , but seems to have all the zones.
I also see for Address objets some "ghost" objects...my understanding was that you would see ghosts objedts when you migrated from a different vendor config file, but these were originally greenfield FW's when my client built them.
Full disclosure, I am importing the config that was exported from the FW, and the FW is managed by Panorama, so maybe that has something to do with it? But I would figure all the config info would have to be in the running config .xml (created a snap shot, and then exported).
My original concern in trying to find duplicate objects/etc is that my Panorama config is 12.9 meg, it's only managing 2 FW pairs...one pair has a config that is 1.2meg and the other pair has config that is 600k...not sure how the Panorama config got to be so huge.
Thank you for any insight.
-Matt
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