<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div>Exported config files are in XML format. Here is a link to the documentation. Nowhere in their documentation does it reference using JSON as the format for import/export.<br /><br />Also, Palo Alto has a "scheduled export" facility, especially if you are using Panorama. We use RANCiD to track the changes more than anything, but use the utility to auto-export configs.<br /><br />https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/8-1/pan-os-admin/firewall-administration/manage-configuration-backups/save-and-export-firewall-configurations.html<br /><br />--Chris<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="padding:10px 0;vertical-align:middle;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width:100%;font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;color:#E43D30;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;white-space:nowrap;"><tr style="font-size:14.67px;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;">Chris<span style="font-family:remialcxesans;font-size:1px;color:#FFFFFF;line-height:1px;"></span> </td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;">Gauthier</td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;color:#444444;font-family:Arial;"> Senior Network Engineer</td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;"> | </td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;color:#444444;font-family:Arial;">Comscore<br /></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="padding:3px 0 0;vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;color:#444444;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;white-space:nowrap;"><tr style="font-size:14.67px;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;">t +1 <a href="tel:(503)%20331-2704" target="_blank" id="LPlnk689713" style="text-decoration:none;color:#444444;"><strong style="font-weight:400;">(503) 331-2704</strong></a></td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;color:#E43D30;font-family:Arial;"> | <br /></td><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;"><a href="mailto:cgauthier@comscore.com" target="_blank" id="LPlnk689713" style="text-decoration:none;color:#444444;"><strong style="font-weight:400;">cgauthier@comscore.com</strong></a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="padding:2px 0 0;vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;color:#444444;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;white-space:nowrap;"><tr style="font-size:14.67px;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.comscore.com/" target="_blank" id="LPlnk689713" style="text-decoration:none;color:#0563C1;"><strong style="font-weight:400;">comscore.com</strong></a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="padding:10px 0 2px;vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-size:0;"><tr style="font-size:0;"><td align="left" style="vertical-align:top;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="white-space:normal;color:#444444;font-size:10.67px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-align:justify;width:500px;"><tr style="font-size:10.67px;"><td style="font-family:Arial;">This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system and notify sender.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div>-----Original Message-----<br />From: Scott Granados <scott.granados@gmail.com><br />Date: Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:44 AM<br />To: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net><br />Cc: "Gauthier, Chris" <cgauthier@comscore.com>, "rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net><br />Subject: Re: [rancid] Restore a Palo Alto Firewall from a Rancid bacup<br /><br />It’s not XML, it’s JSUN if I understand where you’re going with this.<br /><br />From exec mode<br />Set cli config-output-format default<br /><br />Also other variables here can be set for set form andother formats which you can select and display with a ? In the config-output-format parameter field.<br /><br />Thanks<br /><br /><br />> On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:20 PM, john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:<br />> <br />> Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 06:15:39PM +0000, Gauthier, Chris:<br />>> Rancid configs for PAN can NOT be used to restore the config, unless you cut and paste the configuration. This is because the native config files are stored in XML format and that is the format the Palo Alto utilities expect when performing restorations.<br />>> <br />> <br />> so, store both in rancid. what is the cmd to retrieve the xml format?<br />> <br />> _______________________________________________<br />> Rancid-discuss mailing list<br />> Rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br />> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.shrubbery.net%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2francid-discuss&c=E,1,sOD-u4Fb7FVnpwIC-I0Noqe21OYAOvq8QodxcvUVO6-_RwELL2hG9BvQdat-eHRfzF59pW8ydxDEwG45J8a3oI9ghdsNO9UKZn3Kwl9xyPeaQm2MlpRKXQLW2A,,&typo=1<br /><br /><br /></div></body></html>