IronStrataReliquary

What

Python class for interacting with PAN-OS API

• Logging Practices
• Unit Testing

How

Create a new IronStrataReliquary, where strata_interface is the name of your Strata appliance:

strata_interface = IronStrataReliquary(args.verbosity, args.k, args.u, args.p, args.api_endpoint)

From there, it’s possible to perform get and post invocations. Example:

strata_interface.do_api_get_opcmd_key(strata_interface.query_get_globalprotect_summary_v9

Why

Object-based API invocation is useful from a programmatic standpoint, because the module import saves hundreds of lines of redundant coding.

The objective of this project is to develop and maintain API invocations for routine usage in PAN-OS. Each saved invocation is annotated with the PAN-OS version it was added in, to help determine if any changes are made between versions.

• Maintaining a self-testing 3rd party class of API invocations with a pipeline will provide deprecation notice if used with a test bed.
• Toil tasks such as routing changes should be automatically validated.
• Automated monitoring via REST and XML APIs will be more comprehensive than with SNMP.

Dependencies

• Python 3.
• Django Core. Required for URL/URI Validation and parsing.
• Requests. You can’t really make API calls without it.
• xmltodict. Required to process API responses
• JSON

TODO

• Moved to project board

Authors

• Nick Schmidt