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Manage a Deployment Profile

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Manage a Deployment Profile

Manage your deployment profiles.

After you create your deployment profile you can edit, copy, or delete it. Additionally, you can transfer a deployment profile from one credit pool to another.

Before modifying your deployment profile, ensure that you understand the following terms—consumption and allocation in the context of Software NGFW credits.

Consumption—the number for Software NGFW credits used by a deployment profile to license deployed firewalls and subscriptions.
Allocation—the total number of Software NGFW credits assigned to a particular deployment profile.

Additionally, consider the following limitations before modifying your deployment profile.

You can remove or add subscriptions. However, when adding or removing subscriptions, the net consumption must be less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
You can increase the vCPU and/or number of firewalls. This increases the allocation by pulling credits from you Software NGFW credit pool. This cannot be done if your credit pool has sufficient available credits.
You can change the number of vCPUs and number of firewalls. However, the net consumption must be less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
- You cannot decrease only vCPU because this decreases the allocation to an amount past than what has already been consumed.
- You cannot decrease only the number of firewalls because this decreases the allocation to an amount past than what has already been consumed.
- You can decrease vCPU and increase the number of firewalls (or vice-versa) as long as the net consumption is less than or equal to the total allocation of the deployment profile.
- Optionally, you can deregister firewalls to free Software NGFW credits to make changes to the deployment profile.

See the following procedures for more information about managing a deployment profile.

Edit a Deployment Profile
Clone a Deployment Profile
Transfer a Deployment Profile
Delete a Deployment Profile

Edit a Deployment Profile

Use the CSP to edit a Software NGFW credits profile.

Select AssetsSoftware NGFW Credits and click the Details button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
Select the Current Deployment Profiles tab.
On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select Edit Profile.
Make your changes and select Update Deployment Profile.
Select the Audit Trail tab and use search to locate your profile.
Use search to locate your profile, and expand the row to view the configuration you specified when you created the profile.

Clone a Deployment Profile

Use the CSP to clone a Software NGFW credits profile.

Select AssetsSoftware NGFW Credits and click the Details button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select Clone Profile.
Change the profile name, make any other changes, and select Create Deployment Profile.
Select the Audit Trail tab and use search to locate your profile.
Expand the row to view the configuration you cloned. It is a new configuration with a different Profile Name and auth code.

Transfer a Deployment Profile

Use the following procedure to transfer a deployment profile from one credit pool to another.

Select AssetsSoftware NGFW Credits and click the Details button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select Transfer Profile.
Select the target credit pool and click Transfer.

Delete a Deployment Profile

Delete a Software NGFW credits deployment profile.

Before deleting a deployment profile, you must Deactivate License (Software NGFW Credits) on any firewall using the deployment profile and then deactivate the VM.

If your deployment profile was used to enable Panorama, you must deprovision that Panorama instance before deleting the deployment profile.

Select AssetsSoftware NGFW Credits and click the Details button on the credit pool you used to create your profile.
On the far right, select the vertical ellipsis (More Options) and select Delete.

Create a Deployment Profile