Zone Creation W/ Python Device Framework

[toquothty]

I am working on a script to do automation of new tenant builds. One thing I am having a tough time with is creating VLAN Zones because I need to assign them to the specifc VSYS/Location but don't seem to have a paramter to do that. I have been able to successfully add things under Objects and Policies to their specific VSYS, but this zone add is hanging me up. Here is an example of what I am trying to do:

fw = firewall.Firewall('127.0.0.1', 'user', 'pass', vsys="shared")

vsys1 = device.Vsys(name = 'vsys1', display_name = 'PRESENTATION')
fw.add(vsys1)
vsys1.create()

VLAN_zone = network.Zone(name = 'TEST_706', mode = 'layer3')
fw.add(VLAN_zone)
VLAN_zone.create()

 When I attempt to create the VLAN zone I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/ttoquothty/PycharmProjects/PaloAlto/IaaS.py", line 34, in <module>
VLAN_zone.create()
File "C:\Users\ttoquothty\PycharmProjects\PaloAlto\venv\lib\site-packages\pandevice\base.py", line 576, in create
device.active().xapi.set(self.xpath_short(), element, retry_on_peer=self.HA_SYNC)
File "C:\Users\ttoquothty\PycharmProjects\PaloAlto\venv\lib\site-packages\pandevice\base.py", line 3175, in method
raise the_exception
pandevice.errors.PanDeviceXapiError: Could not find schema node for xpath /config/shared/zone

[toquothty]

I figured out my issue and figured out I'd post a update in case someone stumbles across this with the same question.

instead of doing fw.add(VLAN_zone) my script for the Zone should have been:

VLAN_zone = network.Zone(name = 'TEST_706', mode = 'layer3')
vsys1.add(VLAN_zone)
VLAN_zone.create()

Using the vsys1 I established earlier to add the Zone. 

[gfreeman]

I'm glad that you got it working, but that should have worked.  I just tested it and it does indeed work for me (since there is no vsys specified in the `fw` object, it should default to `vsys1`).

I suspect your version of `pandevice` is older, and I'd recommend making sure you're running 0.6.0, which is currently the latest.

[toquothty · Accepted solution]

@gfreeman I think it is because in my 'fw' object I have the vsys set to 'shared'. Because looking more closely at the error I was getting it mentions it could not find the xpath for /config/shared/zone. I am on 0.6.3 for Pandevice so should be good there. 

This is my first go at anything automation related with the Palo (and also new-ish to Python), it's been pretty cool so far! 

[gfreeman]

Oops, missed that.  Yep, you're right 🙂