ezpanos 1.0.4

A lightweight PanOS (Palo Alto Networks) Firewall Management utility.

EZPanOS

lightweight PAN-OS utility library focused on practical operational tasks.

Why ezpanos exists

ezpanos is not a replacement for Palo Alto Networks’ official SDKs.

It grew out of working directly with PAN-OS automation and seeing how often engineers still end up dealing with hardcoded XPath, XML-heavy responses, and task-specific parsing logic.

ezpanos exists to make that experience more practical.

The PAN-OS ecosystem exposes strong configuration and object-management primitives, but real-world operational automatiosn require lower-level PanOS command execution and response parsing-- making operations requiring application logic more intuitive to build.

Right now, the CLI and execution interfaces return JSON. Higher-order abstractions on objects introduce maintenance overhead. This is more of an execution and translation layer for higher-order automations and projects.

The goal is to make operational automation easier to read and build.

Installation

pip install ezpanos

Quick Start

from ezpanos import EzPanOS

endpoint = "10.0.0.1"
fw = EzPanOS(endpoint=endpoint, username="admin")
print(fw.execute("show system info"))

For slower systems/commands, raise the default API timeout:

fw = EzPanOS(endpoint=endpoint, username="admin", request_timeout_default=90)

If password is omitted, you are securely prompted. Credentials entered once can be reused in-memory for subsequent connections in the same run. Credential precedence is deterministic: explicit username/password arguments are used first, then config profile values, then cache fallback for missing values only.

Config Profiles

You can use a config.json file for endpoint/profile organization and optional usernames/passwords.

Conceptually, an estate is the firewalls you intend to manage. Because the utility works on many PanOS Configuration types: Panorama, Firewall, or Log Collector: each can be assimilated into this framework.

Example config.json:

{
  "profiles": {
    "estate": {
      "username": "svc_firewall",
      "endpoints": [
        {"endpoint": "firewall-1.inside.example.com"},
        {"endpoint": "firewall-2.inside.example.com"}
      ]
    }
  }
}

Build an estate object:

from ezpanos.estate import Estate

estate = Estate(
    config="config.json",
    profile="estate",
)

for device in estate.devices:
    print(device.endpoint, device.estate_role)

estate is a concrete ezpanos.Estate instance that directly owns a list of EzPanOS devices.

You can also pass a parsed config dictionary directly:

from ezpanos.estate import Estate

config = {
    "profiles": {
        "production": {
            "username": "svc_firewall",
            "endpoints": [
                {"endpoint": "firewall-1.inside.example.com"},
                {"endpoint": "firewall-2.inside.example.com"}
            ]
        }
    }
}

estate = Estate(
    config=config,
    profile="production",
)

Note that the profile value is configurable if you intend to logically separate the management of different such estates. This is useful for environments with multiple Panorama instances.

If passwords are not present in config, you will be prompted and values are reused from in-memory cache where possible.

To apply a command to a Estate:

from ezpanos.estate import Estate

estate = Estate(
    config="config.json",
    profile="estate",
)


# Example Software upgrade/installation workflow:

# will make all firewalls request a system update
estate.execute_all("request system software check")

# will download a specific version of PanOS
estate.execute_all("request system software download version <version>")

# will install a specific version of PanOS
estate.execute_all("request system software install version <version>")

# will reboot firewalls
estate.execute_all("request restart system")

Rule Management

from ezpanos import EzPanOS

fw = EzPanOS(endpoint="10.0.0.1", username="admin")
result = fw.create_security_rule(
    rule_name="example-rule",
    from_zones=["trust"],
    to_zones=["untrust"],
    sources=["any"],
    destinations=["any"],
    applications=["web-browsing"],
    services=["application-default"],
    action="allow",
)
print(result)

Delete rule and commit:

delete_result = fw.delete_security_rule("example-rule", ignore_missing=True)
print(delete_result)

commit_result = fw.commit(wait_for_job=True)
print(commit_result)

Job sensitive commands

Some commands like software download/install as well as standard commit jobs execute beyond the xml command success.

To monitor the job id of an executed command:

response = fw.execute("request sustem software download 11.1.6-h3")
job_id = fw.extract_job_id(response)

# Or likewise:

version = "10.1.1"
response = fw.execute(f"request sustem software download version: {version}")
job_id = fw.extract_job_id(response)

This job can then be monitored with
response = fw.execute(f"show jobs id {job_id}")