Any chance of an Automated Rollback on Palo Alto firewalls?

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Any chance of an Automated Rollback on Palo Alto firewalls?

L2 Linker

Hi-

 

Im familiar with Juniper equipment which all have the option to 'commit confirm' which automatically reverts the config change if a 2nd commit is not made within a certain period (default 10 mins I think).

 

Its a life-saver if you have to administer remote devices, bbvsince if your change broke connectivity for any reason, in 10 minutes time, your changes get revoked.

 

I now have to administer a couple of remote Palo Alto systems.

 

I don't know of any way to automate a rollback in absence of confirmation.

 

Does anyone know any way to do this?

 

Does anyone know if this is on the PANOS roadmap?

 

Thanks

 

Tom

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

Hi Tom

 

I can't comment on roadmap, but I do knoiw there is a feature request for this:

 

FR ID: 204

 

If you reach out to your sales team, they can add your vote to this feature to have it added

Tom Piens
PANgurus - Strata specialist; config reviews, policy optimization

L7 Applicator

Note how low that FR number is.  We have been asking for "commit confirmed" for a long time.

 

But please contact your Sales Engineer and add your company vote to FR 204.  Keep hope alive.

 

Steve Puluka BSEET - IP Architect - DQE Communications (Metro Ethernet/ISP)
ACE PanOS 6; ACE PanOS 7; ASE 3.0; PSE 7.0 Foundations & Associate in Platform; Cyber Security; Data Center

Just to say for future readers, that a feature for this was released in 9.1 that checks connectivity back to Panorama post-commit: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-1/pan-os-new-features/panorama-features/automatic-panoram...

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That's a nice added feature, but not quite auto rollback (unless commit confirmed).  In a situation where PANs are managed without Panorama, if you lose access with no OOB, you are hosed until you can get remote hands or travel onsite.

PCNSC
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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@KennethMcRae,

Just throwing this out there as an option, but if you have a small node on-site you could use to run a script you can automate a configuration roll-back through the API fairly easily. Ideally this actually gets implemented directly in PAN-OS, but it's a viable option for those that don't use Panorama who want this functionality. 

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