API calls to get config from Panorama (object, object groups, policies etc.)

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API calls to get config from Panorama (object, object groups, policies etc.)

L4 Transporter

How can I get device group specific policies as well as shared object, object groups etc. from the Panorama. I tried with API browser and cli (with debug cli on) but could not find specific path/command. I have checked the xml running config and can see the path however not sure how to use it and the type of operation. Thanks in advance!

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L5 Sessionator

At this point, there are multiple ways to get and configure the firewall and Panorama without building a framework from scratch:

 

High level integrations:

* Ansible - http://panwansible.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

* Terraform - https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/panos/index.html

 

Programatic integrations:

* pandevice (python) - https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/pandevice

 

Technically there's also pango (which Terraform support is built on), but that code should be considered alpha, as it sometimes makes breaking changes, so I wouldn't recommend using it directly right now.

 

@gfreeman Can I use Terraform or Ansible purely for getting data (no updating)? I am using Python with pan-python now.

To some extent yes.  Ansible has facts and Terraform has data sources.  If you give me a bit more info on what kind of data you'd want, I can be more specific..?

 

In addition to that, pan-python is a good library (it's what pandevice is built on top of).  pandevice functions very differently from pan-python, however if you're already not afraid of the API, maybe pandevice could be a good path forward.

L3 Networker

Hey Sly!

 

While the pan-python/pandevice and Ansible/Terraform frameworks really handy, for doing something as simple as pulling information from the Panorama/firewall config I tend to prefer rolling my own. In particular using the xmltodict module and then navigating the config as a Python dictionary can be much more intuitive and pythonic as you build out your program. Here's a sample function you can use for pulling in the Panorama configuration (in Python 3.6.5):

 

import requests
import xmltodict

def get_config(ip: str, api_key: str) -> dict: try: api_call_dict = { 'key': api_key, 'type': 'config', 'action': 'get', 'xpath': f"/config" }
url = f"https://{ip}/api" response = requests.post(url, api_call_dict, verify=False) parsed_response = xmltodict.parse(response.text) panorama_config = parsed_response['response']['result']['config'] return panorama_config except BaseException as be: print(f"get_config() failed due to {be}.") return {}

You could then access the shared address objects by running the function like this:

pano_ip = '10.1.1.1'
pano_api_key = 'ABCDEFKEY'
pano_cfg = get_config(pano_ip, pano_api_key)
print(pano_cfg['shared']['address'])

Hope that helps!

Nasir

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