upgrade-assurance-cli 1.0.1

Upgrade Assurance CLI Tool

Upgrade Assurance CLI Tool

This project is a simple CLI wrapper around the PAN-OS Upgrade Assurance library.

Installation

It is recommended to install this project with pipx.

Installing with pipx will automatically make the main script, assurance-cli available at the command line.

pipx install upgrade-assurance-cli

You can also install directly from this repository if you want to get changes as we develop them, but before they are formally released.

# Install from the main branch
pipx install git+https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/upgrade-assurance-cli.git 
# Install from <branch_name>, useful for testing.
pipx install git+https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/upgrade-assurance-cli.git@<branch_name> 

Quickstart

Run a readiness check ("pre-checks") against a given device.

assurance-cli readiness myfirewall.com

Read the last readiness report for a specific device

assurance-cli report --device myfirewall.com

Take an operational snapshot

assurance-cli snapshot myfirewall.com

Compare two snapshots

assurance-cli compare-snapshots <first-snapshot-path> <second-snapshot-path>

Backup the configuration running-configuration

assurance-cli backup myfirewall.com

Backup the configuration device-state

assurance-cli backup myfirewall.com --export-type device-state

Configuration

Running Against Multiple Devices

This tool allows you to run against multiple devices at once using multiprocessing.

Multiple devices can be passed to the comand line as arguments to the readiness and snapshot commands.

assurance-cli readiness myfirstfirewall.com mysecondfirewall.com 

Or, they can be passed via a text file containing one device per line.

myfirstfirewall.com
mysecondfirewall.com

assurance-cli readiness <path_to_devices_file>

Connecting Via Panorama

Connections can be proxied via Panorama for simplicity. To do so, use the following format for the device string; <panorama_hostname>:<firewall_serial_number>

assurance-cli readiness my_panorama.com:1234567891011

Environment Variables

envvar	description
UA_USERNAME	Username to use for authentication - prompts if not given
UA_PASSWORD	Username to use for authentication - prompts if not given

Customizing the Test Suite

All commands support passing the --config-path flag to pass in a config file. This CLI ships with the most commonly used tests but it is expected that most users will need to customize it.

The config file is in YAML format and specifies the tests used by the upgrade assurance library.

pre_checks:
  - "ntp_sync"
snapshot_comparison_config:
 - routes:
    properties:
     - "!flags"
    count_change_threshold: 10
snapshot_config:
 - routes
 - nics

For a full list of checks and al their configuration options view the Upgrade Assurance Documentation site.