topic How to get Target details of Policies and Layers? in API / CLI Discussion

How to get Target details of Policies and Layers?

Veeraselvam_man — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:01:10 GMT

Hi all,

In the Checkpoint management server, Under the Manage Policies option, we have the option to provide policy target of selected policies and layers. In this target field, we can provide any gateway or cluster names.

Is there any way to get install target info with Policies name details using Management API? I tried below API methods:

https://managementServerIP/web_api/show-access-layers
https://managementServerIP/web_api/show-access-layer

Both API responses are not contained Policy Target information.

Regards,

Veera

Re: How to get Target details of Policies and Layers?

PhoneBoy — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:27:29 GMT

What that screen shows you are actually the policy packages, which contain one or more layers.
Layers themselves do not have such a target, thus you won’t see it by that API.
It’s show-package (and friends).

Also, when you’re installing a policy to a gateway, it’s the policy package you install, not the layer.

Re: How to get Target details of Policies and Layers?

Bob_Zimmerman — Thu, 20 May 2021 14:29:47 GMT

Installation targets are a property of the policy package, not the access layer:

[Expert@LabSC]# mgmt_cli -r true --format json show packages details-level full | jq '.packages[]|{name:.name,targets:."installation-targets"}' { "name": "Policy_the_Second", "targets": "all" } { "name": "Standard", "targets": "all" }

I haven't gotten around to exploring all the possible values for the field. My bet is it's a string with a few acceptable values or a list with names of acceptable targets.

Re: How to get Target details of Policies and Layers?

Veeraselvam_man — Thu, 20 May 2021 15:00:37 GMT

Thank you for your timely help @PhoneBoy

Regards,

Veera

Re: How to get Target details of Policies and Layers?

Veeraselvam_man — Thu, 20 May 2021 15:02:17 GMT

Thank you for your timely help @Bob_Zimmerman 🙏

Regards,

Veera