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PAN-OS OpenConfig Administrator’s Guide

Network Instances

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Network Instances

Provides examples of managing LACP configurations, including setting LACP mode and retrieving LACP configurations using gNMI requests.

When using the openconfig-network-instance model with PAN-OS:

BGP is supported under the named path for /bgp as well as /network-instances/network-instance/protocols/protocol/bgp.
OSPFv2 is supported under the named path as well as /network-instances/network-instance/protocols/protocol/ospfv2.
See BGP Usage and Behavior, OSPF Version 2, and Routing Policy for more information about setting protocols and routing policies using the network-instances container.
Once set, you can't make updates to virtual router name via OpenConfig.
Switching interfaces between virtual routers in the same transaction is not supported.

When moving a tunnel interface between virtual routers within a single transaction you must:

Have one replace operation which lists current interfaces without the new tunnel interface.
Have another replace operation which adds the new tunnel interface that you intend to move.

Adding an interface and creating a virtual router using the Network Instances Model

You can send a request that adds ethernet1/5 to the openconfig-test virtual router:

gnmic -a localhost --port 9339 -u test -p test -e JSON_IETF --timeout 300s set --update "/network-instances/network-instance[name=openconfig-test2]/interfaces/interface[id=ethernet1/5]/id:::string:::ethernet1/5"

A successful response returns:


{
    "results": [
        {
            "operation": "UPDATE",
            "path": "network-instances/network-instance[name=openconfig-test2]/interfaces/interface[id=ethernet1/5.1]/id"
        }
    ],
    "time": "2021-06-23T10:24:45.485769495-07:00",
    "timestamp": 1624469085485769495
}

The following command adds ethernet1/5 to the virtual router using a JSON file.

gnmic -a localhost --port 9339 -u test -p test -e JSON_IETF --timeout 300s set --update-path "/" --update-file virtual-router.json

The contents of virtual-router.json are as follows:


{
    "network-instances": {
        "network-instance": [
            {
                "config": {
                    "name": "openconfig-test2"
                },
                "interfaces": {
                    "interface": [
                        {
                            "config": {
                                "id": "ethernet1/5.0"
                            },
                            "id": "ethernet1/5.0"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "name": "openconfig-test2"
            }
        ]
    }
}

A successful response returns:


{
    "results": [
        {
            "operation": "UPDATE"
        }
    ],
    "time": "2021-06-23T10:38:11.894585804-07:00",
    "timestamp": 1624469891894585804
}

Local Routes

OSPF Version 2