https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/IPS-change-management-Help-needed/m-p/58541#M57537 A starting point for your question is here: <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/Get-IPS-Protections-using-API/m-p/57245" target="_blank">https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/Get-IPS-Protections-using-API/m-p/57245</A><BR />Pretty sure you can get the desired fields outputted directly to a CSV file piping output to jq.<BR />See also: <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/How-to-parse-JSON-output-from-R80-Management-API-with-JQ/m-p/14093" target="_blank">https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/How-to-parse-JSON-output-from-R80-Management-API-with-JQ/m-p/14093</A> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:22:13 GMT PhoneBoy 2019-07-19T02:22:13Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/IPS-change-management-Help-needed/m-p/58319#M57536 <P>Hi all,</P><P>we've recently upgraded out managment and logging servers from R77.30 to R80.20 (gateways are still on R77.30). With R77.30 we've used a simple MS Excel based change management tool to document all of our changes and exceptions in the IPS System.</P><P>We've simply marked and copied the changed protections from the R77.30 dashboard to a text file and used a script to import to excel. This was an easy way to keep a time track to our changes.<BR /><BR /><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-center" image-alt="IPS-Sample.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1890iDB357A7E0F5D5195/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="IPS-Sample.png" alt="IPS-Sample.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Since I can't copy any content from the R80.20 SmartConsole this solution isn't working any more and I try to figure out a simple way how to keep a time track of our IPS changes and get the data into our Excel chart again.</P><P>I've learned the R80.20 has new automation APIs but to be honest - I'm a noob on that.</P><P>Any ideas?</P><P>Many thx</P> Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:24:00 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/IPS-change-management-Help-needed/m-p/58319#M57536 Oliver_Matt 2019-07-16T07:24:00Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/IPS-change-management-Help-needed/m-p/58541#M57537 A starting point for your question is here: <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/Get-IPS-Protections-using-API/m-p/57245" target="_blank">https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/Get-IPS-Protections-using-API/m-p/57245</A><BR />Pretty sure you can get the desired fields outputted directly to a CSV file piping output to jq.<BR />See also: <A href="https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/How-to-parse-JSON-output-from-R80-Management-API-with-JQ/m-p/14093" target="_blank">https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/API-CLI-Discussion-and-Samples/How-to-parse-JSON-output-from-R80-Management-API-with-JQ/m-p/14093</A> Fri, 19 Jul 2019 02:22:13 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/IPS-change-management-Help-needed/m-p/58541#M57537 PhoneBoy 2019-07-19T02:22:13Z