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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

CLI troubleshooting commands cheat sheet

There is plenty of information that you can get from reading logs, but there are many commands that will simplify the search for information by providing the required information directly. In the following table, I have tried to group some of the more interesting commands for you to manage your systems. Unless stated otherwise, all commands are in operational mode.

The first set of commands are generally useful commands:

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Command

Function

find command keyword <keyword>

Lets you find any command as long as you know what you’re looking for.

| match <value>

Filters the output of a command and only returns the line that has a positive match.