Network and security teams spend time daily creating and updating security rules on Palo Alto firewalls to control network access to different applications and services. In many organizations, the rate of change is very high and making these changes manually takes a significant amount of time, creating a backlog of work that prevents users from accessing much needed applications and services. Automating these manual processes are critical to overcome this bottleneck, but interfacing with Panorama APIs is a daunting task with traditional automation tools.
The Itential Automation Platform provides network teams with a unified, integrated set of tools to quickly build automations for every network domain, including the day-to-day creation and changes of firewall rules. By leveraging the freely available modular asssets in Itential’s Automation Marketplace along with the platform’s low-code workflow canvas, network teams can automate these processes to reduce change backlog and deliver service connectivity more efficiently.
In this demo, Jerry Dollens, Senior Solutions Architect at Itential, shows you step-by-step how to:
- Utilize Itential’s Pre-Built Adapter for rapid integration to Palo Alto’s Panorama.
- Review and utilize a JSON Form for user input.
- Review and utilize a Data Transformation for an API call to Panorama.
- Create a workflow to automate Rule Creation using these assets together.
- Publish the workflow and run the automation, using a JSON Form for data input.
Demo Notes
(So you can skip ahead, if you want.)
00:00 Introduction
00:15 How Itential Helps Automate Security Rule Changes
01:05 Demo Overview
01:55 Workflow Overview
02:58 Workflow Deep Dive
06:35 Run Automation to Create Security Pre Rule
07:11 Review Job Execution
07:37 Review New Security Pre Rule in Panorama
08:03 Build End-to-End Orchestrated Process Using Additional Itential Pre-Builts
09:10 Summary
