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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 troubleshooting tool

The web interface is a very convenient way to configure the firewall, but it also holds several tools that you can use to troubleshoot issues you might encounter. The troubleshooting tool, which you can find in Device | Troubleshooting, lets you run several tests past your configuration to see what the system is expected to do in the given situation.

Some of the available tests let you verify whether the system can connect to cloud services, as illustrated in the following screenshot.

Click on Test Result to see the Result Detail pane on the right-hand side:

Figure 11.6 – A cloud connectivity test

Figure 12.6: A cloud connectivity test

The troubleshooting tool lets you test several policies to see whether they will behave as you expect. The following policies can be tested:

  • Security policy match
  • QoS policy match
  • Authentication policy match
  • Decryption/SSL policy match
  • NAT policy match
  • Policy-based forwarding policy match
  • DoS...