Security Rule Creation (Panorama) - Operations Manager

Now that you have built out all of the different pieces for this exercise it is now time to tie it all together and see the results of your work!

Operations Manager Video

Step 1

First, navigate to Operations Manager. 

Step 2

One of the primary objectives of Operations Manager is to define how you will expose your workflow. You may choose not to enable access to Automation Studio for certain teams and only allow them to access specific Operations Manager Automations based on their operational role.

Operations Manager allows users to control when, how, and with what data a workflow should run. Create a new automation by clicking the + at the top of the left navigation panel.

Step 3

The Create Automation window opens. Type Lab - Create Security Rule - Panorama - XX in the Name field (XX represent your initials). Click Create.

Step 4

From here we will take the various pieces of our automation, such as our workflow and form, and link them together. First, select Lab - Create Security Rule - Panorama - XX from the Workflow dropdown.

Step 5

We are ready to create a new trigger.  Triggers define how the automation will be kicked off. These include an API endpoint, a scheduled trigger, an event trigger, or a manual trigger. For this exercise we'll use a Manual trigger. 

Click the + Trigger button.

Step 6

Name the Trigger Form Trigger and select the Type of Manual.

Step 7

This automation will need some user input, so click into the Form field. Select Create Security Rule - Panorama Form.

Step 8

Click Save Changes in the Create Trigger window. The new trigger appears on the left side of the screen.

Step 9

Click the Save button in the Automation Properties window.

Step 10

The automation is ready to test. Click the ▶ button.

Step 11

You are prompted to select a trigger to run the automation. Click the dropdown arrow and select the trigger we just created, Form Trigger.

Step 12

Complete the form with the following values:

Step 13

For the form input From, click + Row to enter an IPv4 address or the word any

Step 14

Do the same for the To, Source, and Destination fields. Click the Run Manually button. 

Step 15

The results will open in a new tab. Here you can see that each task completed successfully.   You can also see a visual representation of the workflow and the path that was taken based on the results of the evaluation tasks. 

Step 16

You have now successfully built and executed an automation to create a Panorama Security Pre or Post Rule.