Managing complex network security environments requires you to quickly find and modify configuration settings across multiple devices. Manually searching for every instance of a specific network object such as IP address, object name, referenced objects, duplicated objects, is inefficient, time consuming, and prone to error. Global Configuration Search available in Strata Cloud Manager, solves this challenge by providing a search functionality across your entire managed configuration.

You can search any string, such as a specific policy name, rule UUID, referenced object, or even policies associated with CVEs. The search results are categorized, providing you with direct links to the configuration location within the Strata Cloud Manager enabling easy navigation to all occurrences and references of the searched string. The search results also help you identify other objects that depend on or make reference to the search term or string. For example, when deprecating a security profile enter the profile name in Config Search to locate all instances of the profile and then click each instance to navigate to the configuration page and make the necessary change. After all references are removed, you can then delete the profile. You can do this for any configuration item that has dependencies.