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Conversion Utility UTM 9 to XG

Jae Lupo

Does anyone know if Sophos ever released a Conversion Utility for UTM 9 to XG.  I was promised this over a year and a half ago and I still don't see it anywhere on this site.  I have a very complicated UTM 9 firewall that I don't want to retype from scratch.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.



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    Hello Jae Lupo,

    A few months ago I was doing a usability analysis of this tool. I was asked for this analysis and I also wanted to personally know if this confguration conversion tool is usable. If you have a complicated UTM9 configuration (as you wrote) I can assure you that the SG To XG Migration Tool is unusable. 

    I have found four or five totally unacceptable bugs in this tool that in principle preclude the use of this tool for configuration conversion. Resp. after a migration of a configuration, such an extensive analysis of the migrated configuration is necessary that it is less time consuming to manually override the configuration than to migrate and then check the configuration. For example, some type of firewall rules are not migrated within the migration process and there is no record of it in the migration log! And nowhere in the release notes for this tool is absolutely no mention that this type of firewall rules are not migrated!

    In my opinion, this tool (in the current version) is only suitable for the migration of objects in the configuration. Unfortunately, the naming convention in UTM v9 and XG is not identical, so the names of network objects or network services do not match after migration.

    If you are interested in I can send you my findings to PM. 

    Regars

    alda

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    Alda,

    Thank you for the info.  I was able to convert 3 other firewalls with not much issue but this one is much more complicated then the rest. I trust you that the tool is not able to do a complete conversion.  I guess I will just start from scratch that way I know it is done right.  Thank you for the help.

    Jae

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    Alda,

    Thank you for the info.  I was able to convert 3 other firewalls with not much issue but this one is much more complicated then the rest. I trust you that the tool is not able to do a complete conversion.  I guess I will just start from scratch that way I know it is done right.  Thank you for the help.

    Jae

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