Understand your validation results
A validation result is evidence about a specific configuration and supported checks. Read the findings, assumptions and coverage alongside the status. It is not a blanket certification of a vendor, a feature set or a production cutover.
What to look for
- Coverage: unsupported or missing source information that could affect the migration.
- Configuration consistency: unresolved references and target requirements that need attention.
- Policy behavior: modeled differences in access decisions, address translation, rule order or zones, where supported.
- Review items: assumptions, conditional behavior and advisory findings for an engineer to investigate.
Read the status in context
| Status | What it means for your review |
|---|---|
| PASSED | The applicable checks passed for this run. Target validation and change approval still apply. |
| PASSED_WITH_WARNINGS | Review the warnings and decide whether they affect the intended change. |
| NEEDS_REVIEW | Resolve the flagged items before relying on the output for deployment. |
| BLOCKED | Address the blocking findings. An AI explanation cannot override this status. |
Keep proof and approval separate
Configuration analysis cannot by itself establish live traffic behavior or device acceptance. Capture gaps and dynamic dependencies can limit what is known. Keep those limits in the change ticket alongside the relevant target tests and rollback plan.
A real example, with its limits visible
The Local verification walkthrough uses synthetic ASA and PAN-OS inputs with intentional mistakes. The saved result shows eight open differences and an “In review” status. It demonstrates the reviewer workflow, not a successful customer cutover.
Before your change window
- Confirm the selected device scope and source/target versions.
- Read unsupported features, missing evidence and assumptions.
- Resolve or explicitly document each relevant finding with an owner.
- Validate the target configuration and test the affected behavior.
- Obtain change approval and retain a tested rollback plan.