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merasil
merasil
New Member
December 21, 2017
Question

Printing out all Firewall Rules

  • December 21, 2017
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Hi there,

 

currently we are updating to Version 5.4. We ran into an issue which i think cant be solved on my own. With 5.2 we had a possibility to print out all Firewall Rules to PDF by using the noscript addon for firefox. Now this isnt working anymore so i have to look for another solution.

Does anyone have a similar problem or a solution for this?

 

Greetings

 

merasil

    3 replies

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    December 21, 2017

    You could back up the config and print the relevant section "config firewall policy". IMHO the most comprehensive and complete documentation but not necessarily the most appealing layout.

    neonbit
    neonbit
    New Member
    December 22, 2017

    There are third party solutions like Firmon that can make it pretty.

     

    Another way is to load up a FortiManager trial VM, import the policies there and export as a csv file.

    merasil
    merasilAuthor
    New Member
    January 31, 2018

    Yeah we got the FortiManager and i already tried to export the rules to csv and import it as data to excel. One minor Problem is that it will export all columns and not only those we have selected. This wouldnt be so bad if i could select the seperator by myself... the comma is pretty anoying since we got commas in our comments section. So the whole csv file gets corrupted :(

    hervaltelecom
    hervaltelecom
    New Member
    January 31, 2018

    You can manage a configured Fortigate and import its policies. And rename the imported policy and later adding more Fortigates to it.

    merasil
    merasilAuthor
    New Member
    January 31, 2018

    sorry i didnt get that. English is not my mother language..

    jimmy_prof
    jimmy_prof
    New Member
    February 1, 2018

    Can you please tell me which type of firewall you have?

     

    If you're using FortiGate 60 you can simply download an FireShot and make an Screenshot of the whole page.

     

    Best regards

     

    Jimmy

    merasil
    merasilAuthor
    New Member
    February 1, 2018

    we got a wide variety of models. Down from 60 up to 3000.

     

    *EDIT*

    So i tried out fireshot and it works pretty good for printing out firewalls with just a few rules....

    But we also got a lot FWs where we have so much rules, that fireshot runs out of ram (i guess its limited by the 2GB limit of 32Bit Programms.. i got 32GB RAM and more than enough free space)

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