How to get all the information about a deleted rule

[Tomer_Sole]

With R80.10, an audit log for a deleted Access Control rule contains the name of the rule, and the list of policies and layers that contain it.

If you wish to get all the rule's information: source, destination, everything, you can leverage the 

show-changes REST API.

This can happen either on the MGMT machine itself, or via outside script.

In this example, I did it on the MGMT machine itself because every MGMT machine also has a tool called “JQ” which is preinstalled and allows to filter the results of the command. “show-changes” will show all changes that happened in the given session UID, and I’m sending the results to JQ which then filters them only to deleted access rules.

Step 1: get the session ID from the audit log card.

Step 2: On the security management machine, login and save the login details to a text file. We will use this text file to identify for the next command.

mgmt_cli login user [username] password [password] domain [domain, optional] > sid.txt

Step 3: Use the show-changes API with filter on deleted access rules and based on the session UID that we copied from step 1.

mgmt_cli show-changes -s sid.txt to-session 2af63713-ad4e-4e9e-869b-361262810258 details-level full --format json | jq -r '.tasks[]["task-details"][].changes[].operations["deleted-objects"][]|select(.type=="access-rule")'

result is attached to this thread (big json with all the data that the rule has) (2 rules were deleted in this session)

Step 4: logout

mgmt_cli logout -s sid.txt

Feedback is welcome.

[PhoneBoy]

That's actually a neat trick

[Danny]

I like that!

[PhongNN]

Thank you so much. It 's very useful

[Tomer_Noy]

This is a very old post, but glad to see that it's still useful 😁

There are actually easier ways to do this in today's latest versions. If you see an audit log for a deleted rule, you can look at the session name, find it in the Revisions view (under "Manage and Settings"), right click and select "Compare with previous".

That will open a visual change report with the session's changes, including the details of the deleted rule.

[PhongNN]

Excuse me

Is this feature available on version R80.30?

[Tomer_Noy]

The "Change Report" feature was added in R81