Setting up templates and template stacks
Templates are a great way to deploy a common device configuration across your managed devices. A template is a profile where you can set parameters in the Network and Device sections of the configuration for your managed devices. For example, you can set the same DNS servers, NTP servers, and domain name for all your firewalls.
To allow more flexibility, you create template stacks for each firewall or firewall cluster and add templates to the stack as needed. A stack is a container that can hold several template profiles to combine their configurations into a tailored config bundle for a specific (set of) firewall(s).
Considering the previous example of three regions and an HQ location, we could create four template stacks – one for each firewall – in Panorama | Templates, and then add the associated firewalls to each template stack. To do this, follow these steps:
- Create templates that contain broad configuration...
