How-to export Fortigate firewall policies to Excel (CSV)
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***I ran into a problem the other day that I wasn't certain I had a good solution for. As luck would have it, someone else had this problem once before me and created a python script to provide a solution.***
The problem: Exporting your Fortigate firewall policies to a CSV for comparison to another firewall vendors policies. Fortigate's don't have a native function built in that allows you to dump the firewall policies to CSV or excel. To do this you need to take a backup of your config (unencrypted), then run the script found in this Github repo (https://github.com/maaaaz/fgpoliciest....
The trouble is this process wasn't very well documented before this video, which is why I felt like I should make it!
Github repo w/Scripts: https://github.com/maaaaz/fgpoliciest...
Fortinet KB article: https://kb.fortinet.com/kb/documentLi...
Python download (Python for Windows x64 3.9): https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9...
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