To change to a different location in the configuration
hierarchy and/or to modify a setting, use the
edit command.
The
edit commands are very similar to the
set commands,
except that when you enter an
edit command, you
switch context to the corresponding node in the command hierarchy.
This can be useful if you need to enter several commands in a node
that is nested far down in the command hierarchy. For example, if
you want to configure all of the NTP server settings, instead of
entering the full command syntax each time using the
set command,
you could use the
edit command to move to
the
ntp-servers node as follows:
[edit]
admin@PA-3060# edit deviceconfig system ntp-servers
[edit deviceconfig system ntp-servers]
admin@PA-3060#
Notice that when you enter the command,
your new location in the command hierarchy is displayed. You can
now use the set command to configure the
NTP server settings without entering the entire command hierarchy:
admin@PA-3060# set secondary-ntp-server ntp-server-address 10.1.2.3
Use the up command to
move up a level in the command hierarchy. Use the top command
to move back to the top of the command hierarchy.
To delete an existing configuration setting, use a
delete command.
For example, to delete the secondary NTP server address, you would
enter the following command:
admin@PA-3060# delete deviceconfig system ntp-servers secondary-ntp-server ntp-server-address
When deleting configuration settings or
objects using the CLI, the device does not check for dependencies
like it does in the web interface. Therefore, when you use delete from
the CLI, you must manually search the configuration for other places
where the configuration object might be referenced. For example,
before you delete an application filter group named browser-based
business, you should search the CLI for that value to see if it
is used anywhere in profiles or policies, using the following command:
admin@PA-3060> show config running | match "browser-based business"
Notice
that because the object you are matching on has a space in it, you
must enclose it in quotation marks.
