Import a device template

The device template import feature allows you to transfer templates between different Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center systems or domains for replication, modification, and deployment purposes.

You can import a template into the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center or export a template to your local system. This feature is useful in the following scenarios:

  • Generate a copy of the template from a device, export it, and import that template into another Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center or Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center.

  • Generate a copy of the template, export it, modify as required to create a variation of the existing template, and import the template into the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center.

  • Generate a copy of the template, export it, and import that template into another domain in which the source template is not visible.

Follow these steps to import a device template into the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center from your local system:

Procedure

Step 1

Choose Devices > Template Management.

Step 2

Click the More (more icon) icon for the template that you want to replace with an imported template.

Step 3

Click Import and click Import again.

If you want to export a template, click Export and click OK.

Step 4

To view the status of the import task, click Notifications, and then click the Tasks tab.

Step 5

Choose the template SFO file on your local system and click Open. This template SFO file that you import can be newly created, generated from a device, or cloned from an existing template.

Step 6

To view the status of the import task, click Notifications, and then click the Tasks tab. You will see a notification informing you that the import or export task is successfully completed. If you are exporting a template, click Notifications and click the Taskstab. In the tab page, click Download Export Package to download the template configuration as an SFO file.

Note

Alternatively, you can also go to the Template Management window and click the Edit (edit icon) icon of the template. Then, go to Template Settings, and click General. Click Import or Export in the General tile to import or export the template.