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PAN-OS OpenConfig Administrator’s Guide

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Manage Network Instances

How to automate virtual router configuration on PAN-OS with openconfig models.

Adding an interface and creating a virtual router using the Network Instances Model

You can send a request that adds ethernet1/5 to the openconfig-test virtual router:

gnmic -a localhost --port 9339 -u test -p test -e JSON_IETF --timeout 300s set --update "/network-instances/network-instance[name=openconfig-test2]/interfaces/interface[id=ethernet1/5]/id:::string:::ethernet1/5"

A successful response returns:


{
    "results": [
        {
            "operation": "UPDATE",
            "path": "network-instances/network-instance[name=openconfig-test2]/interfaces/interface[id=ethernet1/5.1]/id"
        }
    ],
    "time": "2021-06-23T10:24:45.485769495-07:00",
    "timestamp": 1624469085485769495
}

The following command adds ethernet1/5 to the virtual router using a JSON file.

gnmic -a localhost --port 9339 -u test -p test -e JSON_IETF --timeout 300s set --update-path "/" --update-file virtual-router.json

The contents of virtual-router.json are as follows:


{
    "network-instances": {
        "network-instance": [
            {
                "config": {
                    "name": "openconfig-test2"
                },
                "interfaces": {
                    "interface": [
                        {
                            "config": {
                                "id": "ethernet1/5.0"
                            },
                            "id": "ethernet1/5.0"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "name": "openconfig-test2"
            }
        ]
    }
}

A successful response returns:


{
    "results": [
        {
            "operation": "UPDATE"
        }
    ],
    "time": "2021-06-23T10:38:11.894585804-07:00",
    "timestamp": 1624469891894585804
}

Network Instances Behavior

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