Automation/API Discussions

How can we activate an authcode for a feature license in PA-VM firewall using ansible? I tried panos_lic module, but it did not worked.

Hello All,

I am using ansible to deploy a bunch of PA-VMs. I have been using ansible to push various configurations to it including the base license. However, I am unable to update an authcode for a feature license (for example DNS) using the panos

Create a new Zone Protection Profile using XPath?

I am trying to add a Zone Protection Profile from an XML document to a firewall using the XPath API.  I don't want to have to iterate through each element and add it to the profile.  Is there a way to add it from an XML file or block?

def add_dos_pr

Help on structure on script to find host

How would you achive this?

So we have alot of vlans on alot of firewalls, vsys and vr. Our ipam is decent documented but it would be nice to make a api call to the firewalls to get the info insted. I would like to find the

Firewall and Zone where a spe

PA CPU usage via the API

Hello All, 

In PA Firewall Dashboard we have the system Reousrces widget, were we can see the Management CPU and Data Plane CPU usage, I was trying to do the same using the API, but I'm not sure how PA are calculating the values, 

The GUI is sending

How to generate password hash

I am working on automation for managing multiple password changes in Panorama and  in the API calls only work with password hashes, rather than the plain text password. 

Have you any idea what is the process for creating(and reading) the password has

Panorama with pan-os-python API

Hi,

I have three firewalls added to a device group in Panorama. I am accessing Panorama via pan-os-python API and from there I want to fetch some device group "MyDG" and then delete one of the firewalls from panorama based on the hostname of the fire

Cortex - Get all Incidents

Hi Cortex API community experts,

I am trying to generate a monthly report for various areas of the business for a list of Incidents raised during the month for their respective servers. I was hoping that the "get_incidents" api could help with this.

converting existing policies into ansible code

so - i'm just getting starting with ansible automation for my palo firewalls.  have some basic playbooks working...but now it's time to step it up.  One of my main east/west segmentation firewalls has roughly 100 policies.  Is there a way to ingest t

Certificate and private key import to Panorama fails

Does anyone experience issues with importing certificate and key in pem format using panos_certificate_import? I can import it without any issues via GUI. I have exported the cert from panorama and trying to re-import it but that fails.