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Mastering Palo Alto Networks

You're reading from   Mastering Palo Alto Networks The complete journey to firewall mastery from setup to advanced security

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836644811
Length 646 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tom Piens aka  'reaper' Tom Piens aka 'reaper'
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Understanding the Core Technologies FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up a New Device 3. Building Strong Policies 4. Taking Control of Sessions 5. Services and Operational Modes 6. Identifying Users and Controlling Access 7. Managing Firewalls Through Panorama 8. Managing Firewalls Through Strata Cloud Manager 9. Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama 10. Logging and Reporting 11. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 12. Advanced Protection 13. Troubleshooting Common Session Issues 14. A Deep Dive Into Troubleshooting 15. Cloud-Based Firewall Deployment 16. Other Books You May Enjoy 17. Index
Appendix

Panorama management

In this section, we will learn about the simple management tasks that you would normally need to perform on each firewall individually (which can be very time-consuming) and how they can be centralized and made much easier to manage from Panorama. The first task of an administrator is to make sure all firewalls have up-to-date signatures and content packages.

In the following subsections we’ll learn about managing system tasks like dynamic updates from Panorama, how we can onboard previously unmanaged systems and how we can set up High Availability for Panorama.

Device deployment

Content updates can be managed through Panorama in two ways. A template can be created that sets a local update schedule on each firewall, which will require each firewall to connect to the update server individually and collect and install updates. Another method is setting an update schedule on Panorama and pushing out updates to all devices. The second method gives...

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