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 rule name, threat ID,
UUID, or application name. In addition to searching for configuration
objects and settings, you can search by job ID or job type for manual
commits that administrators performed or auto-commits that the firewall or
Panorama performed. 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 is
referenced. The search results also help you identify other objects
that depend on or make reference to the search term or string. For example,
when deprecating a security profile enter the profile name in Global
Find to locate all instances of the profile and then click each
instance to navigate to the configuration page and make the necessary
change. After all references are removed, you can then delete the
profile. You can do this for any configuration item that has dependencies.
Global
Find will not search dynamic content (such as logs, address ranges,
or allocated 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 allocated to users. Global Find also does
not search for individual user or group names identified by User-ID
unless the user/group is defined in a policy. In general, you can
only search content that the firewall writes to the configuration.