Since my departure, my friend and fantastic programmer Sven Waschkut from Palo Alto Networks has been actively supporting and updating this project. PAN has now officially added a repository on their official Github account. So latest features and cool things can be found (Docker CLI!) here

Anything below here will remain for the purpose of archiving!

PAN-Configurator is a PHP library aimed at making PANOS config changes easy (and XML free ;), maintainable and allowing complex scenarios like rule merging, unused object tracking, conversion of checkpoint exclusion groups, massive rule editing, AppID conversion … to name the ones I do on a regular basis and which are not offered by our GUI. It will work seamlessly on local config file or API.

Homepage : download latest sources on GitHub. Windows package with PHP binaries here: dev.zip

Requirements : PHP 5.5 with curl module

Usage: include the file lib/panconfigurator.php in your own script to load the necessary classes.

File tree:

• /lib/ contains library files source code
• /utils/ contains ready to run scripts, more information in utils/readme.txt
• /doc/index.html has all classes documentations
• /example-xxx.php are examples about using this library

With less than 20 lines of code, you should be able to solve most of your needs. Brief overview:

Loading a config from a file :

    $pan = new PANConf();
    $pan->load_from_file('myconfig.xml');

Prefer to load it from API candidate config ?

    $connector = panAPIConnector::findOrCreateConnectorFromHost('fw1.mycompany.com');
    $pan = new PANConf();
    $pan->API_load_from_candidate($connector);

Delete unused objects from a config :

    foreach($pan->addressStore->addressObjects() as $object )
      if( $object->countReferences() == 0 )
        $pan->addressStore->remove($object);

Want to know where an object is used ?

    $object = $pan->addressStore->find('H-WebServer4');
    foreach( $object->getReferences() as $ref )
       print $ref->toString()."\n";

Replace that object by another one :

    $object->replaceMeGlobally($anotherObject);

Want to add security profile group 'Block-Forward-Critical-High' in rules which have destination zone 'External' and source zone 'DMZ'?

    foreach( $vsys1->securityRules->rules() as $rule )
       if( $rule->from->has('DMZ') && $rule->to->has('External') )
           $rule->setSecurityProfileGroup('Block-Forward-Critical-High');

Do you hate scripting ? Utility script 'rules-edit.php' is a swiss knife to edit rules and takes advantage of PAN Configurator library from a single CLI query, ie :

Do you want to enable log at start for rule going to DMZ zone and that has only object group 'Webfarms' as a destination ?

rules-edit.php in=api://fw1.mycompany.com actions=logStart-Enable 'filter=(to has dmz) and (dst has.only Webfarms)'

You are not sure about your filter and want to see rules before making changes ? Use action 'display' :

rules-edit.php  in=api://fw1.mycompany.com actions=display 'filter=(to has dmz) and (dst has.only Webfarms)'

Change all rules using Application Any service to application default ?

rules-edit.php in=api://fw1.mycompany.com actions=service-Set-AppDefault 'filter=!(app is.any) and (service is.any)'

Move post-SecurityRules with source zone 'dmz' or source object 'Admin-networks' to pre-Security rule ?

rules-edit.php  in=api://panorama.mycompany.com actions=invertPreAndPost 'filter=((from has dmz) or (source has Admin-networks) and (rule is.postrule))'

Want to know what actions are supported ?

rules-edit.php  listActions
rules-edit.php listFilters