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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

Setting up templates and template stacks

Templates are a great way to deploy a common device configuration across your managed devices. A template is a profile where you can set parameters in the Network and Device sections of the configuration for your managed devices. For example, you can set the same DNS servers, NTP servers, and domain name for all your firewalls.

To allow more flexibility, you can create template stacks for each firewall or firewall cluster. A stack is a container that can hold several template profiles to combine their configurations into a tailored config bundle for a specific (set of) firewall(s).

Considering the previous example of three regions and an HQ location, we could create four template stacks – one for each firewall – in Panorama | Templates, and then add the associated firewalls to each template stack.

The first step is to create templates that contain broader configuration parameters:

  1. Create templates that will...