Panorama: config output on CLI

[CLIq]

Hi,

I would like to backup and restore a panorama like I can with the firewall, on the firewall i set "set cli op-command-xml-output on" and get the config via the console, then bootstrap the firewall to restore the config...
now i am wondering how I can do the same with panorama...

it seems that i can neither set operational output to xml, nor restore a config via bootstrap... is that so?

is there any way i could automate backing up a panorama and restoring it?

[reaper]

@CLIqhow about

reaper@pano> set cli config-output-format xml
reaper@pano> set cli pager off
reaper@pano> configure 
Entering configuration mode
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reaper@pano# show

[CLIq]

@reaper yes, that does not seem to show the complete configuration and cannot be used to restore panorama with a file.

anyways it seems that panorama does not support something like bootstrapping...

so basically I guess I am asking what the best way would be to automate backup and restore of panorama...

i was thinking about using set commands but then there is the problem of not being able to detect when you are able to login... if I script it and it keeps saying invalid credentials... i cant differentiate that from actually not being able to login...

has anyone even ever tried that and will the "show" with set commands actually restore the complete panorama configuration if entered on a "fresh" panorama?

[reaper]

@CLIq the automated daily ftp backup gets you an easy to use set of xml config that doesnt require any scripting. Once you fi d yourself in a situation where you need to recover from zero, grab the last config backup zip file, unpack, import and you're ready to go

[CLIq]

@reaper Thanks but like I mentioned above, I need to do this without GUI and without network connections.

I can script it and I have access to the hypervisor and console of the Panorama.

so far the only option I see is to use the export as set commands (although i am not sure if a "show" will give you the complete panorama config as it does not if its in xml format) and then restore it the same way by entering those set commands... unfortunately the login prompt is **bleep**... so difficult to login with a script as you cannot know when the authdaemon is started.

any comments anyone? better idea? confirm any part of my hypothesis?

[reaper]

@CLIq  you dont  need the gui for this at all 🙂

The ftp export is a config you can put in, import can be achieved through scp or sftp

You may wanna reach out to your sales guys to submit a feature request