diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Base/BaseModel.php b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Base/BaseModel.php
index e62eb1900..8c36dd178 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Base/BaseModel.php
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/app/models/OPNsense/Base/BaseModel.php
@@ -507,10 +507,10 @@ abstract class BaseModel
      * @param string $targetref target reference, for example section. used as prefix if no source given
      * @return array list of validation errors, indexed by field reference
      */
-    public function validate($sourceref = null, $targetref = "")
+    public function validate($sourceref = null, $targetref = '', $validateFullModel = false)
     {
-        $result = array();
-        $valMsgs = $this->performValidation();
+        $result = [];
+        $valMsgs = $this->performValidation($validateFullModel);
         foreach ($valMsgs as $msg) {
             // replace absolute path to attribute for relative one at uuid.
             if ($sourceref != null) {
diff --git a/src/opnsense/mvc/script/run_validations.php b/src/opnsense/mvc/script/run_validations.php
index 047f8c382..6ecffd01b 100755
--- a/src/opnsense/mvc/script/run_validations.php
+++ b/src/opnsense/mvc/script/run_validations.php
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($model_dir
                 $name = $mdl_class_info->getName();
                 $mdl = $mdl_class_info->newInstance();
                 if (!$mdl->isVolatile()) {
-                    $msgs = $mdl->validate();
+                    $msgs = $mdl->validate(null, '', true);
                     foreach ($msgs as $key => $msg) {
                         echo sprintf('%s.%s => %s', $name, $key, $msg) . PHP_EOL;
                     }