Document:PAN-OS® and Panorama™API Usage Guide

Actions for Reading a Configuration

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Configuration Action Type	Syntax
Get active configuration	action=show
Get candidate configuration	action=get

Show and get actions differ in three important ways:

Show actions retrieve the active configuration, while get actions retrieve the candidate, uncommitted configuration.

Show actions only work when the provided XPath specifies a single node. Get actions work with single and multiple nodes.

Show actions can use relative XPath, while get actions require absolute XPath.