Load a Partial Configuration
Use the load config partial command
to copy a section of a configuration file in XML. The configuration
can be:
A saved configuration file from a Palo Alto Networks
firewall or from Panorama
A local configuration (for example, running-confg.xml or
candidate-config.xml)
An imported configuration file from a firewall or Panorama
To load a partial configuration, you must identify the configuration
file you want to copy from and, if it is not local, import it onto
the device (see
Use
Secure Copy to Import and Export Files for an example of
how to import a saved configuration).
If you are managing more than two or three
firewalls, consider using
Panorama for central management
and monitoring of your firewalls.
To specify what part of the configuration to load, you must find
the xpath location, which specifies the XML node in the configuration
file you are loading from and the node in the local candidate configuration
you are loading to.
The format of the command is:
admin@PA-3060# load config partial mode [append|merge|replace] from-xpath <source-xpath> to-xpath <destination-xpath> from <filename>
Use the information in the following topics to determine the
appropriate Xpath location formats and use them to load a configuration
object from one configuration to another:
