Manually configuring network sites one by one is a time-consuming and error-prone process, especially for large-scale deployments. To streamline this process and ensure consistency, the Prisma SD-WAN configuration tool offers a new Site templates feature. The Prisma SD-WAN configuration tool offers customers a powerful solution for streamlining site deployments at scale. With Site templates, now, you can effortlessly create templates, deploy sites, and provision them at scale through the Prisma SD-WAN user interface, simplifying and optimizing your network management process.

A site template is a predefined blueprint containing a list of variables that encompasses all the necessary configurations for creating fully operational sites and devices. Using this template, you can deploy multiple sites. You can use an existing template, edit an existing one or create a new template to deploy sites.

You can pre-provision sites before an ION device is available to accelerate the deployment. The device shell allows you to create elements, visualize the network, and do simple configurations. If you don't have a physical device at the time of deployment, a virtual configuration–device shell–is created associating a device to a site which can be later assigned to a device.