Use snippets to group configurations that you can quickly push to your firewalls or
deployments.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
Prisma Access
(Cloud Management)
NGFWs (Cloud Managed)
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license
Prisma Access
license
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.
Log in to
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.
Modify your snippet configurations, details, and associations.
Log in to
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.