Activating Strata Cloud Manager
Strata Cloud Manager has a few different ways to be activated at the time of writing, depending on which products you own and how you are activating it:
- If you have standalone firewalls and want to achieve the same sort of centralized management as Panorama, you can deploy a free version of SCM called Strata Cloud Manager Essentials. To receive logs in the cloud, you’d need to add a SLS license.
You can activate SCM Essentials via this activation link: https://apps.paloaltonetworks.com/activation/scm-essentials.
After your SCM tenant has been deployed, you may need to reach out to your Palo Alto sales team to activate it for next-generation firewall (NGFW) management (which is also free).
I’ve used this license to cover the majority of content in this chapter as it is free to use, so you’ll be able to use it easily too.
- The Strata Cloud Manager Pro license is a paid subscription license that...
