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Batch add applications to policy?

L1 Bithead

We have 3 PA-3020 firewalls, one at each of our main branches. For the first month I blocked a few high risk applications then allowed service ports 80 and 443.  After collecting log data for about a month, I combined all 3 location's logs to one spreadsheet and deleted everything except the Application column as well as sorted to remove duplicate applications. 

This left me with every application our employees used or attempted to use over the past month.  I went down the list and removed the applications I didn't want to allow, but this still left me with 140 applications.  I manually added them one-by-one to the first firewall's "Whitelisted Applications" security policy.  This was a long and boring process.  Now I need the same applications added to our other 2 firewalls, is there a way I can add all of the applications below to an Application Group, or Security Policy without having to manually add them one at a time?  I've searched all over the CLI doc for something to use, but came up with nothing. It really seems like I should be able to copy and paste this list into the web gui, but that doesn't seem possible.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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L4 Transporter

An application group would be the best way to accomplish this.  You can create the application group from the CLI with the "set application-group <name> [ app1 app2 .. ]" command.

admin@pan# set application-group Test [ facebook gmail web-browsing ssl ]

[edit]

admin@pan# show application-group Test

set application-group Test [ facebook gmail web-browsing ssl ]

Each application should be listed with a space as a delimiter.

Once created here the application group will be visible on the web UI and can be used in a security policy for the application criteria.

Hope that helps.

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L1 Bithead

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L4 Transporter

An application group would be the best way to accomplish this.  You can create the application group from the CLI with the "set application-group <name> [ app1 app2 .. ]" command.

admin@pan# set application-group Test [ facebook gmail web-browsing ssl ]

[edit]

admin@pan# show application-group Test

set application-group Test [ facebook gmail web-browsing ssl ]

Each application should be listed with a space as a delimiter.

Once created here the application group will be visible on the web UI and can be used in a security policy for the application criteria.

Hope that helps.

Awesome, I'll give it a shot and let you know.  Thank you!

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