I have a big issue with the way SolarWinds counts ACL lines compared to the actual rule number in Cisco ASAs.
This started when we began running the built-in ACLs with overlapping rules report. While that report can be a big help, the Access Lists subview in a node's details creates more headaches than it relieves.
Because SW counts every remark or description in an ACL as its own line, numbers start to diverge when comparing to the rule in the ASA. Even though you can "hide remarks" in the Node Details Access List, the remark line is still counted as a line. For example, rule #3 in my ASA is line #4 in the SolarWinds access list subview. It's off by one because rule #2 has a remark, counted as #2. So rule #2 is line #3 in SolarWinds.
If I only had 10 or so rules, no big deal. But one ACL has 218 rules. In SolarWinds, rule #218 is line 342. This is the big issue. If I start looking in the ASA for shadowed rule #342, I'd never find it.
I can't find any way to alter how SolarWinds counts ACL lines. With over 50 ASAs, this method of cleaning up ACLs is a non-starter. Can this be remedied?
