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Manage a Deployment Profile

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Manage a Deployment Profile

Manage your deployment profiles.
After you create your deployment profile you can edit, copy, or delete it. Additionally, you can transfer a deployment profile from one credit pool to another.
Before modifying your deployment profile, ensure that you understand the following terms—
consumption
and
allocation
in the context of Software NGFW credits.
  • Consumption—the number for Software NGFW credits used by a deployment profile to license deployed firewalls and subscriptions.
  • Allocation—the total number of Software NGFW credits assigned to a particular deployment profile.
Additionally, consider the following limitations before modifying your deployment profile.
  • You can remove or add subscriptions. However, when adding or removing subscriptions, the net consumption must be less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
  • You can increase the vCPU and/or number of firewalls. This increases the allocation by pulling credits from you Software NGFW credit pool. This cannot be done if your credit pool has sufficient available credits.
  • You can change the number of vCPUs and number of firewalls. However, the net consumption must be less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
    • You cannot decrease
      only
      vCPU because this decreases the allocation to an amount past than what has already been consumed.
    • You cannot decrease
      only
      the number of firewalls because this decreases the allocation to an amount past than what has already been consumed.
    • You can decrease vCPU and increase the number of firewalls (or vice-versa) as long as the net consumption is less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
    • Optionally, you can deregister firewalls to free Software NGFW credits to make changes to the deployment profile.
See the following procedures for more information about managing a deployment profile.

Edit a Deployment Profile

Use the CSP to edit a Software NGFW credits profile.
  1. Select
    Assets
    Software NGFW Credits
    and click the
    Details
    button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
  2. Select the
    Current Deployment Profiles
    tab.
  3. On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select
    Edit Profile
    .
  4. Make your changes and select
    Update Deployment Profile
    .

Clone a Deployment Profile

Use the CSP to clone a Software NGFW credits profile.
  1. Select
    Assets
    Software NGFW Credits
    and click the
    Details
    button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
  2. On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select
    Clone Profile
    .
  3. Change the profile name, make any other changes, and select
    Create Deployment Profile
    .

Transfer a Deployment Profile

Use the following procedure to transfer a deployment profile from one credit pool to another.
  1. Select
    Assets
    Software NGFW Credits
    and click the
    Details
    button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
  2. On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select
    Transfer Profile
    .
  3. Select the target credit pool and click
    Transfer
    .

Delete a Deployment Profile

Delete a Software NGFW credits deployment profile.
Before deleting a deployment profile, you must Deactivate License (Software NGFW Credits) on any firewall using the deployment profile and then deactivate the VM.
If your deployment profile was used to enable Panorama, you must deprovision that Panorama instance before deleting the deployment profile.
  1. Select
    Assets
    Software NGFW Credits
    and click the
    Details
    button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
  2. On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select
    Delete
    .

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