Global Find
Global Find enables you to search the candidate configuration
on a firewall or on Panorama for a particular string, such as an
IP address, object name, policy name, threat ID, rule UUID, or application
name. The search results are grouped by category and provide links
to the configuration location in the web interface so that you can
easily find all of the places where the string exists or is referenced.
To launch global find, click the 
on the
upper right side of the web interface. Global Find is available
from all web interface pages and locations. The following is a list
of Global Find features to help you perform successful searches:
Search
icon
on the
upper right side of the web interface. Global Find is available
from all web interface pages and locations. The following is a list
of Global Find features to help you perform successful searches:- If you initiate a search on a firewall that has multiple virtual systems enabled or if administrative roles are defined, Global Find will return results only for areas of the firewall for which you have permission to access. The same applies to Panorama device groups; you will see search results only for device groups to which you have administrative access.
- Spaces in search text are handled as AND operations. For example, if you search oncorp policy, bothcorpandpolicymust exist in the configuration item for it to be included in the search results.
- To find an exact phrase, surround the phrase in quotes.
- To re-run a previous search, click Global Find and a list of the last 20 searches are displayed. Click any item in the list to re-run that search. The search history list is unique to each administrative account.
Global Find is available for each field that is searchable. For
example, in the case of a Security policy, you can search on the
following fields: Name, Tags, Zone, Address, User, HIP Profile,
Application, UUID, and Service. To perform a search, click the drop-down
next to any of these fields and click
Global Find
.
For example, if you click Global Find
on
a zone named l3-vlan-trust, Global Find will search the entire configuration
for that zone name and return results for each location where the
zone is referenced. The search results are grouped by category and
you can hover over any item to view details or you can click an
item to navigate to the configuration page for that item.Global Find does not search dynamic content that the firewall
allocates to users (such as logs, address ranges, or individual
DHCP addresses). In the case of DHCP, you can search on a DHCP server
attribute, such as the DNS entry, but you cannot search for individual
addresses issued to users. Another example is usernames that the
firewall collects when you enable the User-ID™ feature. In this
case, a username or user group that exists in the User-ID database
is only searchable if the name or group exists in the configuration,
such as when a user group name is defined in a policy. In general,
you can only search for content that the firewall writes to the configuration.
Looking for more?
Learn more about using Global Find to search
the firewall or Panorama configuration.
