topic Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30 in Firewall & Security Management

Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

shaq — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 09:50:37 GMT

Hi Guys,

Just wondering is there a tool that can be used to copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA within the same MDS on R77.30. I've seen some blogs on cp_merge utility but it doesn't support MDS.

Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers

Shaq

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

PhoneBoy — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 16:06:43 GMT

See odump/ofiller.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

Maarten_Sjouw — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:17:17 GMT

For objects you can also just export and import them, once they are available int he other CMA, just open both dashboards and try to copy and paste.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

shaq — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:56:31 GMT

Unfortunatley the tool is no longer being actively maintained but the last release (Jan 2007) is still usable up to R65

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

shaq — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 21:05:09 GMT

Thanks Maarten, do you have any document or link explaining the export/import of objects between CMA.

Also, once you've imported the object file into CMA, is it going to overwrite the existing objects?

Cheers

Shaq

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

Maarten_Sjouw — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:16:10 GMT

Shaq, I don't know of any document describing how to select a number of objects and go to the file menu and select Export from there. This will create a file per object. When you select groups, it will also export all the contents of those groups.
I have not tried importing objects that already exist, but you can simply export 1 object and try to import it, my guess is that it will fail to import that object.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

PhoneBoy — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:17:35 GMT

The tool was never officially supported and should work just fine up to R77.30.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

JozkoMrkvicka — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:36:26 GMT

Is there any way how to export and import LDAP groups ? cp_merge nor Ofiller (Odumper) are capable of doing such a thing.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

PhoneBoy — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:57:27 GMT

Not aware of a tool that can do this.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

DZ_KB — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 05:42:34 GMT

Hi @Maarten_Sjouw ,

Could you explain how ? are you meaning by the gui ?

thanks a lot for your reply.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

Maarten_Sjouw — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:51:57 GMT

In the SmartDashboard there is an option to do an export of selected objects, as described in my previous post.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

DZ_KB — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:03:45 GMT

I work in a R81. I have find how to export object to a cvs file but not to import them.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

PhoneBoy — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:47:21 GMT

The only way to import objects from CSV is using mgmt_cli with a specially crafted CSV file.
It cannot currently be done with SmartConsole.

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

DZ_KB — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:28:07 GMT

Hi @PhoneBoy ,

And what about from copy/paste rules from a cma to a another cma ?

I have tried it but it doesn't seems to work in r81

Re: Copy rules and objects from one CMA to another CMA on the same MDS in R77.30

PhoneBoy — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:01:47 GMT

I've never tried copy/pasting rules across CMAs, only within the same management domain (without Multi-Domain).
Not sure that was ever a supported feature, either.

In any case, you will have to manually create the rules or export/import them in other ways (not using SmartConsole).