Import a Device Template

You can import a template into the 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 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 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.

When you import a template into a domain, any objects that are part of the configuration are either newly created or reused if the objects with the same name are visible in the domain into which the template is imported. Any object with matching names that is not visible, due to domain hierarchy, is imported as a new object with the name suffixed with a _x.

If there is a mismatch in the variable names when you want to onboard devices in a domain using the cloned template from another domain, you must specify the new variable names in the .csv file to onboard the devices.

Perform the procedure given below to import a device template into the 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

View the status of the import task in the Notifications > Tasks window.

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

View the status of the import task in the Notifications > Tasks window. You will see a notification informing you that the import or export task is successfully completed. If you are exporting a template, click Download Export Package in the Notifications > Tasks window to download the template configuration as an SFO file.

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