Philips Hue Light Bulbs

rkemburu — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:49:29 GMT

Philips Hue Light Integration with Palo Alto Networks

Firewall configuration

So this payload makes the light blink for 15 seconds in the red color (hue:0) and afterwards stay on.

There are other alternatives possible, you can also make it blink one time in red and afterwards stay on.:

{"on":true,"hue":0,"bri_inc":254,"transitiontime":0,"alert":"select”}

The advantage is that even if you’re not there, you come back and you see that the light is on in red, you know that a severe threat was detected. And if another threat is detected, it will blink again so you see this.

But other alternatives are possible of course as well as you can use the entire Philips Hue API.

And then you attach the HTTP Server Profile to the Log Forwarding Profile(s):

Here I attached it to the critical and high severity threats, as well as when WildFire saw a malicious file.

Phillips Hue Setup

You need to discover the IP address of the bridge on your network. Multiple methods exist (check out https://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started)
Once you have the address load the test app by visiting the following address in your web browser http://<bridge ip address>/debug/clip.html You should see an interface like this:
We’re going to create a username, fill in the info below:

Address

http://<bridge ip address>/api

Body

{"devicetype":"my_firewall#PA-220"}

Method

POST
Press the button
Execute again the POST button
You get
This is the username that you have to use in the API request "/api/<username above>/lights/1/state" that you should use in the payload format.

Each light has its own URL. You can get information about the different lights through the API, or you can go through the different id’s if it aren’t that many.
Configure according to the screenshots above
Commit / Done / Happy blinking

Address	http://<bridge ip address>/api
Body	{"devicetype":"my_firewall#PA-220"}
Method	POST

Written by Steven De Pauw / SE Belgium & Luxemburg

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