Comments in SCX files

Hi 

Thank you for reaching out to Sophos Community.

Have you tried importing the .scx file on a different device/OS? Also, kindly try using the updated version.

Adding # at the beginning of the line will indicate that this is a comment; this will not affect any of the configurations.

Hi Erick,

Have tried the SCX on mac and windows machines.

I'm confused when you say use the updated version.  Of what?   Connect v1.4 is the newest version on MacOS as it hasn't been updated by the Sophos Devs in years.

Windows we have tried in the latest v 2.3

Also tried exporting the config from the XG, and literally adding one line as below.  Still, parse error

"remote_ts" : [
"0.0.0.0/0"
#test
],

Hi,

what format did you use to import the file, was it the same as the exported file?

Ian

Original .scx file

Simple test.  XG Gui, export connection.  Unzip.

Edit scx file in a text editor, same one i;ve always used that does not apply any formatting

simply added the # test line after the only IP line in this SCX file, saved and imported.

If I remove the line, it imports quite happily.  100% cannot use # to comment

I tried "# comment" but no joy

Out of interest, what is the tgb file also included in the export?  I see that has comments in.

We would need to use the command line functions to import these configs to our machines, so not sure if tgb is supported rather than scx

Hello there,

I thought you originally asked about the SSL VPN file (.ovpn). You can add the comments to the file, as I mentioned in the older post.

However, the IPsec (.scx) uses JSON, so adding comments to the file is not allowed.

Regards,

Nez_Pottage , you can use below syntax in the .scx file to include comments

"comment1": "text ...",
"comment2": "text ...",

just tested and same File could not be parsed error.