panos_query_rules – PANOS module that allows search for security rules in PANW NGFW devices

• DEPRECATED
• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status

DEPRECATED

Synopsis

• • Security policies allow you to enforce rules and take action, and can be as general or specific as needed. The policy rules are compared against the incoming traffic in sequence, and because the first rule that matches the traffic is applied, the more specific rules must precede the more general ones.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• pan-python can be obtained from PyPI https://pypi.org/project/pan-python/
• pandevice can be obtained from PyPI https://pypi.org/project/pandevice/
• xmltodict can be obtains from PyPI https://pypi.org/project/xmltodict/

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: search for rules with tcp/3306
  panos_query_rules:
    ip_address: '{{ ip_address }}'
    username: '{{ username }}'
    password: '{{ password }}'
    source_zone: 'DevNet'
    destination_zone: 'DevVPC'
    destination_port: '3306'
    protocol: 'tcp'

- name: search devicegroup for inbound rules to dmz host
  panos_query_rules:
    ip_address: '{{ ip_address }}'
    api_key: '{{ api_key }}'
    destination_zone: 'DMZ'
    destination_ip: '10.100.42.18'
    address: 'DeviceGroupA'

- name: search for rules containing a specified rule tag
  panos_query_rules:
    ip_address: '{{ ip_address }}'
    username: '{{ username }}'
    password: '{{ password }}'
    tag_name: 'ProjectX'

Status

• This module will be removed in version 2.12. [deprecated]
• For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

• Bob Hagen (@rnh556)