Let’s say that you want to use Panorama in a high availability
configuration to manage a dozen firewalls on your network: you have
six firewalls deployed across six branch offices, a pair of firewalls
in a high availability configuration at each of two data centers,
and a firewall in each of the two regional head offices.
The first step in creating your central management strategy is
to determine how to group the firewalls into device groups and templates
to efficiently push configurations from Panorama. You can base the grouping
on the business functions, geographic locations, or administrative
domains of the firewalls. In this example, you create two device
groups and three templates to administer the firewalls using Panorama: