In forcepoint you have the means to import elements into the SMC. You can import csv host objects from a text file. If you want to create elements and deliver these to use I have a script that does groups , hosts and network elements and creates the finally formatted xml files.
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#!/bin/bash
#
# kfelix socpuppets.com
# rev1.0
# date oct15-2019
#
# Script for CSV supplied customer data { e.g field1,field2,field3 }
# Purpose of this script is to assist with building a bulk list of "hosts" or "Networks" objects based on a customer provided "space" separated details in a text file
#
# It should expedite any "Host or Network" elements, which can be easily imported into the SMC after zip compressing the xml datafile
# The hostfile must contains single line entries space separate hostname and ipv4 address
# The networkfile must contains single-line entries csv separate network-name and network_number and netmask in dot.dot.dot.dot format or CIDR
# e.g wwww1,1.1.1.1
# wwww2,1.1.1.2
# wwww3,1.1.1.3
# e.g net10,10.0.0.0 8
# net192.168.1.0,192.168.1.0,255.255.255.0
ntwrk 10,10.0.0.0,8
# e.g groupname
######### ensure names do not have any spaces , try to use _ - enlew of spaces in the names #############
######### script does not check the validation of the network number and netmask ; nor the host ipv4 address format ###########
#
# start of menu selections
#
#
PS3='Please enter your choice: '
opt=("GenerateHosts" "GenerateNetworks" "GenerateGroups" "Quit")
select opt in "${opt[@]}"
do
case $opt in
"GenerateHosts")
echo "Building Host Entries using filename $1"
D=`date +'%s'`
TMP=GeneratedHostImport.$D.xml
read -p "Press [Enter] key to start"
echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>" >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<!DOCTYPE generic_import_export SYSTEM \x22generic_import_export_v5.10.dtd\x22>"}' >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<generic_import_export build=\x22"10714"\x22 update_package_version=\x22"1175"\x22>" }' >> $TMP
# add host entrys to temp file
#
cat $1 | awk -F "\"*,\"*" ' { print "\<host name=\x22"$1"\x22> <mvia_address address=\x22"$2"\x22/> \n</host>"}' >> $TMP
echo "</generic_import_export>" >> $TMP
#
echo "job Completed, please see the resulted in xml filename $TMP"
exit
;;
"GenerateNetworks")
echo "Building Network Entries using filename $1"
D=`date +'%s'`
TMP=GeneratedNetworkImport.$D.xml
read -p "Press [Enter] key to start"
echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>" >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<!DOCTYPE generic_import_export SYSTEM \x22generic_import_export_v5.10.dtd\x22>"}' >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<generic_import_export build=\x22"10714"\x22 update_package_version=\x22"1175"\x22>" }' >> $TMP
# add host entrys to temp file
#
cat $1 | awk -F "\"*,\"*" ' { print "\<network db_key=\x22"7900"\x22 ipv4_network=\x22"$2"/"$3"\x22 name=\x22"$1"\x22/>" }' >> $TMP
echo "</generic_import_export>" >> $TMP
#
echo "job Completed, please see the resulted in xml filename $TMP"
exit
;;
"GenerateGroups")
echo "Building Group Entries using filename $1"
D=`date +'%s'`
TMP=GeneratedGroupImport.$D.xml
read -p "Press [Enter] key to start"
echo "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>" >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<!DOCTYPE generic_import_export SYSTEM \x22generic_import_export_v5.10.dtd\x22>"}' >> $TMP
awk 'BEGIN { print "<generic_import_export build=\x22"10714"\x22 update_package_version=\x22"1175"\x22>" }' >> $TMP
# add host entrys to temp file
#
cat $1 | awk -F "\"*,\"*" ' { print "\<group name=\x22"$1"\x22/>"}' >> $TMP
echo "</generic_import_export>" >> $TMP
#
echo "job Completed, please see the resulted in xml filename $TMP"
exit
;;
"Quit")
break
;;
*) echo "invalid option $REPLY";;
esac
done
[EOF]
A very simple means to build a export.xml file
NSE ( network security expert) and Route/Switching Engineer
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