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Scheduled a reboot of managed firewalls (tasks) from Panorama

oscaringosv — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:22:28 GMT

Hello everyone,

I want to know if is possible to ask Palo Alto to add this feature to Panorama, we have 100+ firewalls at branch offices, when we applied a software upgrade for example 6.0 - 7.0 it always ask for a reboot to apply the new version (In a perfect world we could reboot the firewall at any time but sadly is not possible until third shift or non working hours). It will be great to have a chedules tasks to do it from Panorama. Is there a especific site to ask Palo Alto to add this feature maybe in future releases?.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Scheduled a reboot of managed firewalls (tasks) from Panorama

BPry — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:29:47 GMT

From my understanding on feature requests they have to be brought up with our SE and managed from an internal PA system; I've always questioned why the system was always setup like this, but it is.

This is something that would likely work with API access however, or really even a script that simply logs into each device and simply issues a restart. You could then schedule that specific script to run at a given time, wouldn't be a perfect solution but it would give you a solution until/if this was put into place.

Re: Scheduled a reboot of managed firewalls (tasks) from Panorama

oscaringosv — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:49:37 GMT

Thanks BPry, In the mean time I will use a script.