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mchu_FTNT
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May 4, 2020

Technical Tip: How to load an existing web filter profile from CLI

  • May 4, 2020
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Description
This article describes how to load an existing web filter profile from another FortiGate from CLI.

Solution
From CLI, credit a new web filter profile.
# config webfilter profile
(profile)edit <name of new profile>            <----- e.g. new_profile.
Go to FortiGuard category based filter.
((new_profile)# config ftgd-wf
(ftgd-wf)# config filter
Purge the predefine profile filters.
(filters)# purge
This operation will clear all table!
Do you want to continue? (y/n)y
Show the configuration.
(filters) # show
(filters) #
Paste an existing web filter profile filters configuration in (e.g. block all unrated URL).
(filters) #
    edit 1
        set action block
next
Now the filter will be as existing expected profile filter.
(filters) # show
# config filters
    edit 1
        set action block
    next
end

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