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Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

kalyanram.piratla — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:29:16 GMT

Heylo.. any chance of having the PAN firewall (not Panorama) do automatic backup of configurations as per time/date settings?

I am now having customers asking me if PAN have this somewhere down the line being implemented on the firewall.

Cheers..

Kalyan

Re: Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

Retired Member — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:03:29 GMT

I am not aware of any such plans. You should consult with your Sales Engineer for roadmap type of questions. However, what you are requesting should be easy to do by running a cron job on a server and scripting the "show config running" output to a filename. There should be many such examples on the Internet.

-Richard

Re: Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

licenselu — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:41:51 GMT

Hello,

Richard, I think the forum is a also good place to listen for the customer request.

My customers also asked me this feature.

By the way, Checkpoint support it...

Regards,

Re: Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

mikand — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:05:26 GMT

What about snmp traps when someone is commiting a configuration?

Because they you could script the configserver to fetch the config when snmp trap is received.

Re: Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

kalyanram.piratla — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:28:17 GMT

All the points mentioned above have considered and were conveyed to my customers.. but they feel that PAN (which provides a lot of granularity and ease of using a firewall) should be thinking of this option.

Cheers..

Re: Any chance of having automatic config backup option on the firewall (not Panorama) in the future

mharding — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:55:18 GMT

The XML-API backup works fantastically.