Troubleshooting the IPS Signature Converter

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Learn how to resolve IPS rule conversion failures.

Where Can I Use This?	What Do I Need?
NGFW (Managed by Panorama)	Advanced Threat Prevention (for enhanced feature support) or Threat Prevention License

If your rules fail to convert, use the following command in the Panorama command-line interface (CLI) to see a detailed summary of the failure:

admin@M-200-49> tail follow yes lines 1 plugins-log plugin_ips_signature_converter.log

The output consists of a list of the logs for each rule and a final summary of the status of their conversion.

Rule Logs

The output first lists the logs for each rule that you submitted for conversion. Each log contains the following fields.

Field	Values
Line	The line number of the rule.
result	True—The rule converted successfully. False—The rule failed to convert.
type	normal—The rule contains a pattern to search packet payloads. edl—The rule is a list of suspect URLs, IP addresses, or domains.
hash	A unique identifier for each rule that successfully converted. This output is None if conversion failed.
msg	Details about a signature with a result of failed or warned.

Summary

After listing the logs for each rule, the output displays a summary of the conversion results.

Field	The number of rules that...
Total	Were submitted for conversion.
Succeed	Converted successfully.
Warned	Converted successfully but contain minor syntax errors or that pose a risk, such as high performance impact or false-positive rate.
Skipped	Converted successfully and share a common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) identifier with a signature that already exists in the Palo Alto Networks Threat Vault.
Duplicated	Were repeated in the submission.
Failed	Failed to convert.