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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

You're reading from   Mastering Palo Alto Networks Deploy and manage industry-leading PAN-OS 10.x solutions to secure your users and infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789956375
Length 514 pages
Edition 1st 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. Section 1: First Steps and Basic Configuration
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Core Technologies FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a New Device 4. Section 2: Advanced Configuration and Putting the Features to Work
5. Chapter 3: Building Strong Policies 6. Chapter 4: Taking Control of Sessions 7. Chapter 5: Services and Operational Modes 8. Chapter 6: Identifying Users and Controlling Access 9. Chapter 7: Managing Firewalls through Panorama 10. Section 3: Maintenance and Troubleshooting
11. Chapter 8: Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama 12. Chapter 9: Logging and Reporting 13. Chapter 10: VPN and Advanced Protection 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting Common Session Issues 15. Chapter 12: A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting 16. Chapter 13: Supporting Tools 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up templates and template stacks

Templates are a great way to deploy 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. A stack is a container that holds several templates 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 next step is to create templates that contain broader configuration parameters:

  1. Create templates that will be used to fulfill a certain task, as follows:

    --You could...

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