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PAN-OS SDK Device Group Hierarchy

L4 Transporter

Is there a way to create device under a parent or move a device group using the sdk. 

Similar to Operational command:

> request move-dg dg1 new-parent-dg dg1_parent create-dg yes

 

I am aware of the dg_hierarchy opstate, which helps finding the device group, but how can I set the parent when creating a new group? 

DeviceGroup.create() method just places the new group under shared and this fails in cases of having depended objects on the parent device group. 

 

In the fist case I need to create a new group as member of parent device group. 

In the second case I want to "clone" device group with a new name under new parent. Any help how to do that? 

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L0 Member

Hi

 

You might already have found the answer but for any future searches.

Instead of using opcommands you can use the following code 

 

        newsite = DeviceGroup(site.SiteName)
        pano.add(newsite)
        newsite.create()
        newsite.opstate.dg_hierarchy.__setattr__('parent', site.Region)
        newsite.opstate.dg_hierarchy.update()

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L5 Sessionator

Hi @batd2, you can perform lots of operational tasks like this with op(), for example:

resp = panorama.op('<request><move-dg><entry name="new-dg"><new-parent-dg>home-dg</new-parent-dg></entry></move-dg></request>', xml=True, cmd_xml=False)
print(resp)

Ref: https://pan-os-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html#operational-commands and https://pan-os-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/module-base.html#panos.base.PanDevice.op

 

Hope that helps!

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L5 Sessionator

The GUI hides that creating a device group then moving it under the specified device group instead of "Shared" is a two-step process, but it is in fact a two step process.  There is device group hierarchy opstate stuff in place, just use the opstate namespace hanging off of your instance of the panos.panorama.DeviceGroup object along with the docs:

 

https://pan-os-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting-started.html#the-opstate-namespace

https://pan-os-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/module-panorama.html#panos.panorama.DeviceGroupHierar...

 

L0 Member

Hi

 

You might already have found the answer but for any future searches.

Instead of using opcommands you can use the following code 

 

        newsite = DeviceGroup(site.SiteName)
        pano.add(newsite)
        newsite.create()
        newsite.opstate.dg_hierarchy.__setattr__('parent', site.Region)
        newsite.opstate.dg_hierarchy.update()
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