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

[mchu_FTNT]

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