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Remove all FQDN Hosts and Host Groups at once

Ryan McQueen

I am wondering if there is a way where I can remove all of the FQDN Host Groups followed by the Hosts at once without having to delete them page by page within the GUI? I tried pushing a policy from SFM (working to migrate to Sophos Central) and overwriting the existing policy, but this does not seem to do the trick.

Small background: We are trying to eliminate the external DNS requests that seem to be caused by these groups and hosts. I understand the TTL can be adjusted for these, but we are not utilizing any of the UTM features and would like this outright disabled. We are a Government lab and this is one of the things the Cyber team is trying to get us to eliminate. Once the host groups and hosts were deleted, these queries stopped.



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    Ensure you have a valid backup of your firewall before you attempt in the event you need to failback.

    Under Backup & Firmware, you can export a full or selective configuration to an XML file.  I would start by exporting the full, identify the section that contains your data. Then export a selective configuration of that section. From there you can edit the xml (remove the entries) and import the file back in. This will in turn overwrite that section and will remove the devices in question.  

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    Ensure you have a valid backup of your firewall before you attempt in the event you need to failback.

    Under Backup & Firmware, you can export a full or selective configuration to an XML file.  I would start by exporting the full, identify the section that contains your data. Then export a selective configuration of that section. From there you can edit the xml (remove the entries) and import the file back in. This will in turn overwrite that section and will remove the devices in question.  

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