In a Panorama Template, how to reference a setting configured by another template?

[BrendanPope]

Goal: To keep my IKE/IPSec profiles used for site-to-site VPNs consistent across all of my firewalls.

Example: I have a "Crypto Profile" template that defines some IKE and IPSec crypto profiles. This template is added to the template stacks for each of my individual firewalls. I want to use these crypto profiles for all of the site-to-site VPN tunnels I have configured in my organization. I configure these tunnels in the device-specific template stacks.

How can I then reference the IKE/IPSec profiles defined by those templates, in the site-specific templates that configure the individual tunnels between sites?

For example, if I have the following templates defined in Panorama:

• Site 1 Network Settings template
• Site 2 Network Settings template
• Site 3 Network Settings template
• Crypto Profiles template
• Admin Profiles template

My Template Stacks look something like this:

• Site 1 Stack
  • Site 1 Network Settings Template
  • Crypto Profiles template
  • Admin Profiles template
• Site 2 Stack
  • Site 2 Network Settings Template
  • Crypto Profiles template
  • Admin Profiles template
• Site 3 Stack
  • Site 3 Network Settings Template
  • Crypto Profiles template
  • Admin Profiles template

How can I reference the crypto profiles defined in the "Crypto Profiles" template in the "Site Network Settings" template that will configure the individual IPSec tunnels?

[BrendanPope]

Nevermind I figured it out.

[salmani]

What was the solution?

[JayGolf]

Hi @salmani ,

I found a related article: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/panorama-discussions/referencing-items-in-a-template-that-are-d....