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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By : Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'
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Mastering Palo Alto Networks - Second Edition

By: Tom Piens aka Piens aka 'reaper'

Overview of this book

Palo Alto Networks’ integrated platform makes it easy to manage network and cloud security along with endpoint protection and a wide range of security services. This book is an end-to-end guide to configure firewalls and deploy them in your network infrastructure. You will see how to quickly set up, configure and understand the technology, and troubleshoot any issues that may occur. This book will serve as your go-to reference for everything from setting up to troubleshooting complex issues. You will learn your way around the web interface and command-line structure, understand how the technology works so you can confidently predict the expected behavior, and successfully troubleshoot any anomalies you may encounter. Finally, you will see how to deploy firewalls in a cloud environment, and special or unique considerations when setting them to protect resources. By the end of this book, for your configuration setup you will instinctively know how to approach challenges, find the resources you need, and solve most issues efficiently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Monitoring with Pan(w)achrome

Some monitoring tools come in very simple packaging, such as the Chrome browser extension Pan(w)achrome (also known as Panachrome). You can install the extension right from the Chrome web store:

  1. Open https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions in the Chrome browser.
  2. Search for pan(w)achrome.
  3. Click on Add to Chrome, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 13.7 – Adding the Pan(w)achrome extension to Chrome

Figure 15.7: Adding the Pan(w)achrome extension to Chrome

  1. Once the extension is installed, the icon will appear in your extension quick launch.
  2. Click on the icon to go to the landing page, where you can add new firewalls, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 13.8 – Pan(w)achrome managed devices

Figure 15.8: Pan(w)achrome managed devices

  1. Click on the Add button and add the firewall by its URL.
  2. Select whether you want to authenticate using an API key or username and password.

    The API key can be easily extracted from each firewall using the following...