pfSense

I would like the ability to find where an alias is used via the GUI. I imagine a button next to the other alias option buttons on the alias page or perhaps a modal like when you hover over a firewall rules.

Mechanisms that can help:

• Download a backup and then search the XML.
  • I have used this.
  • perhaps the process of creating the backup and then grep the file could be utilised internally in pfSense
• when you try and delete an alias that is in use it fails
  • this is because pfSense knows it is in use.
  • perhaps this mechanism could be utilised to show the usage of the alias

This was originally posted 10 years ago but I think it was closed because a patch was posted but it was for a different issue. #2640