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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

Preparing for the upgrade

Before we get started on the upgrade process, there are a few precautions we should take to ensure we are properly prepared and have everything set so that the upgrade process itself goes smoothly:

  1. Go to Device | Setup | Operations for the firewall or Panorama | Setup | Operations for Panorama, then click Save named configuration snapshot and name the configuration file for the device name, date, and time (for example, HQmember1-04052020-1005.xml).
  2. Next, click on Export named configuration snapshot and save the file somewhere where you can find it if you need it.
  3. You can also export running-config.xml so that you have the latest committed configuration, but remember to rename the file after downloading it.

    If you have Panorama, you should already have the scheduled backup configured under Panorama | Scheduled Backup, but it doesn’t hurt to have a fresh backup just in case.

  1. Go to Device | Dynamic Updates,...