Retrieving Rule Violations

The Rule Violation APIs allow you to retrieve data about cells in a USP that were not complainant with a specific rule. The API retrieves data based on each rule and each USP, and analyzes each source and destination zone to identify where there is a rule violation and the severity of the violation.

This API allows you to build queries to identify the following types of rule violation:

• Property Violations
• Flow Violations
• Traffic Violations

Rule violation API examples

Violations from a specific rule

The following query retrieves the names of USPs that violate Rule_1, the severity of the violation, and the display name of the violating device:

{
  rules(filter: "name = 'Rule_1'") {
    values {
      name
      violations {
        usp {
          name
        }
        ruleViolationSeverity
        violationOrigin {
          violatingDevice {
            displayName
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Output

{
  "data": {
    "rules": {
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "Rule_1",
          "violations": [
            {
              "usp": {
                "name": "USP1"
              },
              "ruleViolationSeverity": "HIGH",
              "violationOrigin": [
                {
                  "violatingDevice": {
                    "displayName": "Panos_SA_249.210"
                  }
                }
              ]
            },
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Rules that have not been used recently and have USP violations

The following example retrieves a list of rules that have not been used in the last month but violate a USP enforcement requirement. These rules may be candidates to decommission:

{
  rules(filter: "timeLastHit before last month and violations.timeCreated  exists") {
    values {
      name
      timeLastHit}
  }
}

Output

{
  "data": {
    "rules": {
      "values": [
        {
          "name": "Rule 1",
          "timeLastHit": "2018-12-16T00:00:00Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}