Applies To: Cloud-managed Fireboxes
Firebox templates provide an efficient way for a Service Provider to configure cloud-managed Fireboxes with preferred standard settings. When you create a Firebox template in a Service Provider account, all Subscriber accounts inherit that template as a read-only template. Service Providers can subscribe devices in any account they manage to the inherited template, or copy that template to create a new editable template.
These examples show some ways Service Providers can use templates to configure and update cloud-managed devices in their customer accounts.
Example 1 — Global Configuration Template
In the Service Provider account, configure a global template to use for devices in all Subscriber accounts.
In this example:
- In the Service Provider account, create and deploy a template with global base settings that are applicable to all devices.
- In each Subscriber account, an operator subscribes all devices to the template.
Benefits:
- Service Provider creates and deploys the global template once.
- When the Service Provider updates and deploys the template, any changes deploy to all subscribed devices automatically.
Example 2 — Multiple Templates
In the Service Provider account, configure multiple templates that all Subscriber accounts inherit.
In this example:
- In the Service Provider account, you can create and deploy multiple templates. For example:
- Base — template with settings appropriate for most devices
- VoIP — template with a policy to allow outbound VoIP connections to a VoIP service
- In Subscriber accounts, an operator subscribes specific devices to one or both templates.
Benefits:
- The Service Provider creates each template once.
- When the Service Provider deploys an update to a template, any changes deploy to all subscribed devices automatically.
Example 3 — Standard Configuration Template
In the Service Provider account, configure a standard configuration to use as a basis for account-specific templates in new Subscriber accounts. In the Service Provider account, configure a standard template with common settings to use as the basis for account-specific templates. When you add a new Subscriber account, the standard configuration template makes it easy to quickly create a new template with standard settings that you can modify for each customer.
In this example:
- In the Service Provider account, an operator creates and deploys a template with standard settings to use as a basis for templates in Subscriber accounts.
- In Subscriber accounts, you can:
- Copy the inherited template.
- Edit the copied template with settings specific to that account.
- Subscribe devices to the copied template.
Benefits:
- Service Provider creates and deploys the standard configuration template once.
- The copied template in each account starts with standard settings.
Limitations:
- Copied templates do not retain a link to the original template.
- Changes to the original template do not affect the copied template.
Video tutorial: Cloud-Managed Firebox Templates