Cisco FTD

Part 1: Save LINA configuration

Part 2: Backup the NGFW Rules, Snort3, FQDN from FTD

Part 1: Save LINA configuration

To get the configuration, you can use the CLI commands:

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show running-config

Copy and paste the outputs into a plain text file.

Part 2: Backup the NGFW Rules, Snort3, FQDN from FTD

This guide briefly shows where to find the NGFW Rules, IPS, FQDN and how to save in a txt file.

From FTD CLI expert mode navigate to the directory ngfw/var/sf/detection_engines/<UUID>/ngfw.rules by following the steps below:

1. Log in to FTD CLI as Expert Mode.



2. Navigate to the directory ngfw/var/sf/detection_engines/ by using cd command.
3. Verify the uuid by ls command.



4. List all the files and folders in the current directory using the ls -l command.



5. Get the files, for example, if we are trying to fetch NGFW_rules use the command cat NGFW_rules.



6. Copy and paste in a text file.