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This is instead of the usual way of qualifying the object with its category name:
add Address IP4Address...
Both are valid forms of the command. If an object type can be uniquely identified with
its name, its object category need not be specified. With automatically generated
scripts, this is always the case. This shortened form can also be used when typing the
entire command in a CLI console although tab completion will always include the
object category.
The name of the file created using the -create option cannot be greater than 16 characters in length
(including the extension) and the filetype should be .sgs.
Objects Excluded from Script Files
Certain aspects of a configuration which are hardware dependent cannot have a script file entry
created when using the -create option. This is true when the CLI node type in the script -create
command is one of:
• COMPortDevice
• Ethernet
• EthernetDevice
• Device
These node types are skipped when the script file is created and NetDefendOS gives the message No
objects of selected category or type.
Tip: Listing commands at the console
To list the created CLI commands on the console instead of saving them to a file, leave
out the option -name= in the script -create command.
Commenting Script Files
Any line in a script file that begins with the # character is treated as a comment. For example:
# The following line defines the If1 IP address
add IP4Address If1_ip Address=10.6.60.10
Scripts Running Other Scripts
It is possible for one script to run another script. For example, the script my_script.sgs could contain
the line:
script -execute -name my_script2.sgs
NetDefendOS allows the script file my_script2.sgs to execute another script file and so on. The
maximum depth of this script nesting is 5.
2.1.6. Secure Copy
To upload and download files to or from the NetDefend Firewall, the secure copy (SCP) protocol
can be used. SCP is based on the SSH protocol and many freely available SCP clients exist for
2.1.6. Secure Copy Chapter 2. Management and Maintenance
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