Using Excel to work with configuration files
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I've had to do some recent additions here for a few /27 networks to our firewall configuration. I found a way to leverage the excel developer options to work with a source config XML so I can quickly add a bunch of entries to nat rules etc. Once exported the files need some basic search/replace to clean them up but otherwise it saves a ton of time compared to manully entering every address into the UI screens one by one.
I'm wondering if a guide already exists, where I would find it, and how I would go about writing up and submitting one if not.
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There is no such guide that I'm aware of. If you write one, it may live here on the forum, perhaps as a sticky. I'm not sure that's a practice we'd want to actively encourage through putting it on the wiki, since there is quite a lot of room for error when making any changes to the config, especially automated changes.
