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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

You're reading from   Mastering Palo Alto Networks Build, configure, and deploy network solutions for your infrastructure using features of PAN-OS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803241418
Length 636 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Tom Piens Aka 'Reaper' Tom Piens Aka 'Reaper'
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding the Core Technologies 2. Setting Up a New Device FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Strong Policies 4. Taking Control of Sessions 5. Services and Operational Modes 6. Identifying Users and Controlling Access 7. Managing Firewalls through Panorama 8. Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama 9. Logging and Reporting 10. Virtual Private Networks 11. Advanced Protection 12. Troubleshooting Common Session Issues 13. A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting 14. Cloud-Based Firewall Deployment 15. Supporting Tools 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Setting up templates and template stacks

Templates are a great way to deploy a common device configuration across your managed devices. A template is a profile where you can set parameters in the Network and Device sections of the configuration for your managed devices. For example, you can set the same DNS servers, NTP servers, and domain name for all your firewalls.

To allow more flexibility, you can create template stacks for each firewall or firewall cluster. A stack is a container that can hold several template profiles to combine their configurations into a tailored config bundle for a specific (set of) firewall(s).

Considering the previous example of three regions and an HQ location, we could create four template stacks – one for each firewall – in Panorama | Templates, and then add the associated firewalls to each template stack.

The first step is to create templates that contain broader configuration parameters:

  1. Create templates that will...
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