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Create Objects for Use in Shared or Device Group Policy

The document provides guidance on creating and managing shared and device group objects in Panorama, emphasizing the importance of maintaining consistent naming to avoid configuration push failures. It details the steps to create shared objects for policy rules and device group objects for specific network resources, along with the implications of overriding inherited instances. Additionally, it explains how to view these objects within the Panorama interface and the impact of antivirus licenses on object management.

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Create Objects for Use in Shared or Device Group Policy

The document provides guidance on creating and managing shared and device group objects in Panorama, emphasizing the importance of maintaining consistent naming to avoid configuration push failures. It details the steps to create shared objects for policy rules and device group objects for specific network resources, along with the implications of overriding inherited instances. Additionally, it explains how to view these objects within the Panorama interface and the impact of antivirus licenses on object management.

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You can use an object in any policy rule that is in the Shared location, or in the same device group as the object, or in
descendants of that device group (for details, see Device Group Objects (/content/techdocs/en_US/panorama/10-
1/panorama-admin/panorama-overview/centralized-firewall-configuration-and-update-management/device-groups/device-
group-objects.html#id0fee714c-9e17-43a0-aac5-54e0c34f37e3)).

Shared device group objects can be viewed and referenced in a specific device group. Changing the name of a Shared device
group object in one device group changes the name of the Shared object in all device groups. This includes any configuration
the Shared object is referenced, such as in Policy rules. Changing the name of a Shared device group object may cause the
configuration push to managed firewalls to fail.

For example, you create a Shared object named ObjectA and create a Security policy rule in the DG1 device group
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your managed firewalls. Later in the DG1 device group, you change the name of ObjectA to ObjectB and try to push the
configuration to your managed firewalls. This push fails because your managed firewalls have the Shared object with the
name ObjectA as part of their configuration, and are expecting that configuration object to have the same name.

See Use Dynamic Address Groups in Policy (https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-1/pan-os-


admin/policy/monitor-changes-in-the-virtual-environment/use-dynamic-address-groups-in-
policy.html#) to verify the number of supported registered IP addresses on Panorama if you intended to
leverage dynamic address groups in order to create policies that automatically adapt to changes in your
network.

 Create a shared object.

In this example, we add a shared object for URL Filtering categories for which we want to trigger alerts.

❯ Cookie Settings
A Select the Objects > Security Profiles > URL Filtering tab and click Add.
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admin/manage-firewalls/manage-device-groups/add-a-device-group.html#idc954be13-9886-4347-808e-
775b1c5266e4) (at least one).

B Enter a Name and a Description.

C Select Shared.

D The Disable Override option is cleared by default, which means you can override inherited instances of the object in all
device groups. To disable overrides for the object, select the check box.

E In the Categories tab, select every Category for which you want notification.

F In the Action column, select Alert.

G Click OK to save your changes to the object.

H Select Commit > Commit to Panorama and Commit your changes.

 Create a device group object.

In this example, we add an address object for specific web servers on your network.

A Select Objects > Addresses and select the Device Group in which you will use the object.

B Click Add and enter a Name to identify the object.

C Be sure to leave the Shared option cleared.


D The Disable Override option is cleared by default, which means you can override inherited instances of the object in
device groups that are descendants of the selected Device Group. To disable overrides for the object, select the
Disable Override option.

E Select the Type of address object and the associated value. For example, select IP Range and enter the IP address
range for the web servers.

F Click OK to save your changes to the object.

G Select Commit > Commit and Push and then Commit and Push your changes to the Panorama configuration and to
the device group where you added the object.

❯
When you activate an antivirus license (https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-1/pan-os-

admin/threat-prevention/set-up-antivirus-anti-spyware-and-vulnerability-protection.html) on a
firewall, a list of predefined IP lists are automatically added to the firewall. As a result, this re-

duces the total number of individual address objects, dynamic groups, external IP lists, predefined
IP block lists, and external predefined IP lists you can push from Panorama.

 View shared objects and device group objects in Panorama.

In the pages of the Objects tab, the Location column indicates whether an object is shared or is specific to a device group.

A In the Objects tab, select the object type (Objects > Addresses, in this example).

B Select the Device Group to which you added the object.

The Objects tab only displays objects that are in the selected Device Group or are inherited from
an ancestor device group or the Shared location.

C Verify that the device group object appears. Note that the device group name in the Location column matches the
selection in the Device Group drop-down.

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