Export SonicWALL config to text

Needed a way to export the SonicWALL config file to plane text.

Found a tool on GitHub - https://github.com/pryorda/sonicwallRuleParser

It did not work correctly with Python3.

PS C:\support\fw> python.exe .\parser2.py .\sonicwall-NSA_2600.exp

  File ".\parser2.py", line 454

    print ""

          ^

I found the 2to3.exe tool in the Python tools directory.

 

C:\Users\"user-name"\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts

Made a copy of the file

.\copy C:\temp\parser2.py C:\temp\parser2-3.py 

Ran the tool

.\2to3.exe C:\temp\parser2-3.py -w

After converting with 2to3.exe tool still received a error

python.exe .\parser2-3.py .\sonicwall-NSA_2600.exp

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File ".\parser2-3.py", line 14, in <module>

    decoded_data =  decoded_data.split("&")

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

A little research found we needed to convert the byte-like object to string

decoded_data = decoded_data.decode(encoding="utf-8") # Python 3

After the update the parser worked without issue.

python.exe .\parser3.py .\sonicwall-NSA_2600.exp  >test.txt

I posted the updated files on GitHub

https://github.com/Trifused/sonicwallRuleParser