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Palo Alto Networks Compliance Frameworks API

Operations for managing compliance framework definitions including CRUD, clone, benchmark, and release operations.

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Palo Alto Networks Compliance Frameworks API is one of 741 APIs that Palo Alto Networks publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Compliance Frameworks. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 16 operations across 10 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.strata.paloaltonetworks.com/posture/compliance-frameworks/v1, https://api.strata.paloaltonetworks.com/posture.

16 operations 10 paths 10 schemas 2 DELETE4 GET8 POST2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Contact
Palo Alto Networks Technical Support
License
MIT
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Palo Alto Networks Compliance Frameworks API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (BearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • BearerAuth — Bearer token authentication using JWT

Paths & Operations 16

Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 16 operations — 2 DELETE, 4 GET, 8 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Compliance Frameworks 16

Operations for managing compliance framework definitions including CRUD, clone, benchmark, and release operations.

GET
/definitions
List Compliance Frameworks
getAllFrameworks 2 params → 200400403500
POST
/definitions
Create Compliance Framework
createFramework body → 201400403500
GET
/definitions/{id}
Get Framework Revision
getLatestRevision 2 params → 200400403404500
PUT
/definitions/{id}
Update Compliance Framework
updateFramework 2 params body → 200400403404500
DELETE
/definitions/{id}
Delete Compliance Framework
deleteFramework 1 param → 204400403404500
POST
/definitions/{id}:clone
Clone Compliance Framework
cloneFramework 1 param → 201400403404500
POST
/definitions/{id}:benchmark
Benchmark Compliance Framework
benchmarkFramework 1 param → 200400403404500
POST
/definitions/{id}:un-benchmark
Remove Framework Benchmark
unBenchmarkFramework 1 param → 200400403404500
GET
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions
List Compliance Frameworks
ListComplianceFrameworks 2 params → 200400403500
POST
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions
Create Compliance Framework
CreateComplianceFramework body → 201400403500
GET
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}
Get Framework Revision
GetComplianceFramework 2 params → 200400403404500
PUT
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}
Update Compliance Framework
UpdateComplianceFramework 2 params body → 200400403404500
DELETE
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}
Delete Compliance Framework
DeleteComplianceFramework 1 param → 204400403404500
POST
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}:clone
Clone Compliance Framework
CloneComplianceFramework 1 param → 201400403404500
POST
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}:benchmark
Benchmark Compliance Framework
BenchmarkComplianceFramework 1 param → 200400403404500
POST
/compliance-frameworks/v1/definitions/{id}:un-benchmark
Remove Framework Benchmark
UnBenchmarkComplianceFramework 1 param → 200400403404500

Schemas 10

The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ComplianceFramework_2 (13 properties), ComplianceFramework (12 properties), ComplianceFrameworkRequest_2 (8 properties), ComplianceFrameworkRequest (8 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ErrorDetail
object
Individual error information
4 properties 2 required
ComplianceFrameworkRequest
object
Compliance framework create/update request
8 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Standard error response format
2 properties 2 required
ComplianceFramework
object
Compliance framework resource
12 properties
ControlNode
object
Control node in the compliance framework hierarchy
4 properties
ComplianceFrameworkRequest_2
object
8 properties
ComplianceFrameworkListResponse
object
1 property
ComplianceFramework_2
object
13 properties
ControlNode_2
object
Control node in the compliance framework hierarchy.
4 properties
Error
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

palo-alto-networks-compliance-frameworks-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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ID
palo-alto-networks:palo-alto-networks-compliance-frameworks-api
Base URL
https://{firewall}/api/
Docs
https://pan.dev/panos/docs/xmlapi/
Provider
Palo Alto Networks
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