Technical Tip: How to delete all firewall policies ,VIPs (Virtual IPs) or firewall addresses to configure from scratch

This article describes about situations, where one might delete all firewall policies, VIPs (Virtual IPs) or firewall addresses to re-create them again.

Deleting firewall policies, VIPs or firewall addresses one by one might take a lot of time, in cases where the configuration is huge.

Using the following CLI commands complete firewall config of respective fields can be deleted.

To delete all firewall policies:

FGT # config firewall policy
FGT (policy) # purge

This operation will clear all table!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y

It is also possible to select all entries on the GUI by holding the 'Shift' key, selecting the first and last firewall policies, 'right-clicking' on any policy, and selecting Delete policy. The same procedure also applies to Virtual IPs and address objects. 

To delete all VIPs (Virtual IPs):

FGT # config firewall vip
FGT (vip) # purge

This operation will clear all table!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y

To delete all firewall addresses:

FGT # config firewall address
FGT (policy) # purge

This operation will clear all table!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y

Notes:

• Be careful while running the above CLI commands, as they will delete all related settings under that function permanently. 
• Virtual IPs and address objects must be removed from all references; otherwise, it is not possible to delete them.