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Manage: Snippets

Use snippets to group configurations that you can quickly push to your firewalls or deployments.

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Use snippets to group configurations that you can quickly push to your firewalls or deployments.

A snippet is a configuration object, or grouping of configuration objects, that you can associate with a folder, deployment, or device. Snippets are used to standardize a common base configuration for a set of firewalls or deployments allowing you to quickly onboard new devices with a known good configuration and reducing the time required to onboard a new device. For example, you onboard a new firewall in a remote branch office. You can associate a set of snippets that contain all of the required network and policy rule configurations with the folder the new firewall belongs to. This reduces the time required to set up the firewall to protect the remote branch office.

Snippet associations have a top-down priority in the event of conflicting values. This means that if the first and the last associated snippets have different values for the same object, the value from the first snippet is inherited by the device or deployment. Additionally, all configurations inherited from a snippet can be overridden at the child folder, deployment, or device level.

Within a folder hierarchy, a snippet might only be associated one time within any folder hierarchy. This means that a snippet can’t be associated with both a folder and the folder nested under it. However, you can associate the same snippet with different folders or folders nested under different folders. Snippets that are already associated with a folder in the folder hierarchy are grayed out so they can’t be used more than once where applicable.

Create a Snippet

Create and associate a snippet with a folder, deployment, or device to apply a common base configuration to a group of devices. You can associate as many snippets with a folder, deployment, or device as needed.

Snippets can be modified and reassociated with any folder, deployment, or device at any time after creation.

Custom snippets that are no longer in use can be deleted.

Strata Cloud Manager

Select

Manage

Configuration

NGFW and Prisma Access

Overview

and expand the Configuration Scope to view the

Snippets

Add Snippet

Create the snippet.

Give the snippet a descriptive

Name

(Optional) Enter a

Description

for the snippet.

(Optional) Assign one or more

Labels

You can select an existing label or create a new label by typing the label you wanted to create.

Create

Create your snippet configuration.

You’re now in the Configuration Scope for the snippet. All configurations you create while in the snippet scope occurs only for the snippet.

While in the snippet scope, you can review the snippet

Overview

to see detailed information about the snippet. This includes information such as the number of variables, information about the snippet was created and last updated, and the list of all folders, deployments, and devices the snippet is associated with.

Associate a snippet.

Select

Manage

Configuration

NGFW and Prisma Access

Overview

and expand the Configuration Scope to view the

Config Tree

Select the folder, deployment, or device you want to associate the snippet with.

Edit the

Config Snippet

Add the snippets that you want to associate and order them as needed.

Push Config

to push your configuration changes to your network.

Modify a Snippet

Modify your snippet configurations, details, and associations.

Custom snippets no longer associated with a folder, deployment, or device can be deleted.

Strata Cloud Manager

Select

Manage

Configuration

NGFW and Prisma Access

Overview

and expand the Configuration Scope to view the

Snippets

Select the snippet you want to modify.

After you select a snippet, you’re redirected to the snippet

Overview

(Optional) Edit the snippet to modify the

Name

Description

, or to change or assign additional

Labels

Save

your edits to apply them.

Edit the

Snippet Associations

to reassociate the snippet with a different folder, deployment, or device or to associate the snippet with additional folders, deployments, or devices.

Exit the snippet reassociation screen to apply the changes.

Make any changes to the snippet configuration as needed.

Push Config

Delete a Snippet

Delete your custom snippets to keep your configurations organized. Snippets must be unassociated with any firewalls, folders, or deployments before they are able to be deleted. Deleting predefined snippets is not supported.

Strata Cloud Manager

Select

Manage

Configuration

NGFW and Prisma Access

Overview

and expand the

Configuration Scope

to view the Snippets.

Click the three vertical dots of the custom snippet you want to delete.

Delete

the snippet.

Snippets currently associated with folders, deployments, or devices can't be deleted. You must first edit the

Snippet Associations

to remove all existing associations before it can be deleted.

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