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Importing policy rules?

I have several policy rules that I need to create that have between 20-50 lines I have to check (lots of "ANDs" since they can be in any order). Is there an import tool/option anywhere? I have not been able to find one but hoping I have overlooked it.

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bdufresne

What format are these policies in? Have they been developed within a different SolarWinds instance?

brfrankl

There are not in any format from another program/export. I would need to know what format they would need to be written in to be imported. Right now I create them in notepad++ and copy paste line by line

Would like to have some type of pseudo code, or xml file, or some format I can put this in and just import it instead of click click copy paste. For some of the more complicated ones, since there is no ability to insert a condition in the middle, being able to export, modify and reimport is the next use case)...

At the moment there are a text file like this, and I just put each line as a regex condition since order does not matter

.* permit ip 10.10.1.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.20.2.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.30.8.0\/22 any

.* permit ip 10.40.1.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.50.1.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.60.1.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.70.1.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 10.80.3.0\/24 any

.* permit ip 192.168.0.27\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.1.3\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.12.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.16.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.28.25\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.28.34\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.28.79\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.29.3\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.3.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.32.79\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.33.3\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.5.3\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.60.251\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.60.252\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.60.63\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.61.3\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.64.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.64.251\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.64.252\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.80.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.84.17\/32 any

.* permit ip 192.168.88.17\/32 any

.* deny ip any any log

And here is a more complex one that I put in and had to delete and re-write several times as I got the order logic the way I wanted:

bdufresne

I remember there being a way to import compliance rules, and I believe it was XML format. What I would do is: take one of the compliance rules you have already built and saved, export it to verify the format, and modify that to a "template" format so you can build that out from your notepad. It would likely be best to export 2 rules with distinct titles, this way you can build out multiple rules using the XML format.

I hope that helps, and let me know if it works for you, or if you require additional assistance!

brfrankl

That is what I was thinking, but I don't see an import/export for the rules, Just the reports....