Import ISE policy set 2.4

[JESSICA Walsh]

How do you import ISE policy sets? They can be exported, therefore they have to be able to be imported, but I can't find the place to do this. Does anyone know?

[Damien Miller · Accepted solution]

The ability to import them does not exist yet.  Hopefully it is implemented in the future.  

[Arne Bier]

It was meant to be introduced in ISE 2.4 but it got dropped last minute. I am keeping fingers crossed that it makes it into 2.5 ... the beta for 2.5 was supposed to start this week but has been postponed into the middle of October.

[Jason Kunst · Accepted solution]

Didn’t make it in 2.5, can’t discuss futures here sorry

[HumanTorch]

What is the purpose of exporting policies in XML if you can't import them anywhere?

In migrating from older installations (1.x to 2.x) a lot of customers want to start with a fresh installation instead of a multi tiered upgrade. In that case, policies have to be re-created. Import would be great and then they can edit or fine tune them.

[Jason Kunst]

for now you can use for troubleshooting large rule sets.

[Arne Bier]

Hi @Jason Kunst - I have downloaded a few of these in my life time but I have not been able to view them in a way that makes it easy to understand, or to spot mistakes.  I understand that it's XML and there are XML viewers/editors etc.  But they just display the data in some hierarchy and it's not user friendly.   Any tips or tools that you know of to make this more human readable?

I agree that Policy Import would one day be a nice to have feature :-)

[hslai]

I usually use a web browser to view such XML files, although the libraryConditions are not grouped properly into one BIG hierarchy so I need manually collapse them one-by-one. Below shows the output from Safari on my macOS desktop.