topic Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured in General Topics

Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

itsup — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 16:59:13 GMT

Hi,

just starting up with my first PaloAlto device, and have a simple question for which I don't seem to find a solution in the documentation. By default, the interfaces of a new firewall are are unconfigured, i.e. the GUI shows their status as "not configured and down". However, if any change of config is made, it seems to be impossible to get the interface back to that state. I know that I can Link State as "down", but that's not what I'm looking for, because it still shows the interface in alarming red color in the GUI, and the status for it is "configured but down". I'd like to see the unused interfaces as "not configured". Is there a way to reset interfaces to unconfigured state?

Re: Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

sraghunandan — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:08:43 GMT

Can you please navigate to Network-Interface select the interface and click on the delete option below:-

Re: Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

Retired Member — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:35:23 GMT

you may also use

delete network interface ...........

in configure mode.

Re: Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

itsup — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 07:48:57 GMT

I don't know what to say, I must be blind... I played with this literally hours, and didn't see that Delete button. I even tried that command line command proposed by panos. It resulted in:

Server error : ethernet1/3 cannot be deleted because of references from:

import -> network -> interface

[edit]

admin@PA-3020#

But anyway, the delete button in GUI did what I needed, thanks a lot.

Re: Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

mikand — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:46:23 GMT

Been there, done that!

Last it was searching for how you search in a particular folder (and below) in win7 (previously one could rightclick and select search)... turned out the damn search box is located by default in the top right in explorer nowadays 😃

Re: Reset an interface to initial state of Not configured

simon_taylor — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:27:48 GMT

thanks for this. However @Palo Alto, I find this ambiguous. Once pressed, it says "delete interface entry" which sounds rather more ominous than "remove interface config"