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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

Using the tools at our disposal

Knowing your way around the web interface is a great start if you need to troubleshoot an issue. There are plenty of spaces where valuable information is stored, and knowing just where to look can be the difference between quickly checking and fixing an issue versus spending hours trying to figure out why something isn’t working.

As we saw in Chapter 9, Logging and Reporting, the Monitor tab is such a place where knowing where to look can make all the difference. Logs are maintained for just about any event, from sessions passing through or being blocked by the firewall or a security profile, to things happening on the firewall itself. In most cases, the log files will be the first place to look if something unexpected happened.

Log files

There are many different log databases that collect specific information which can be found under Monitor | Logs. Knowing where to look is essential if you want to quickly find information relating...