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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use global counters to find out what is happening to a session and how to interpret the output. You are now able to collect deep-dive logs for each process that touches a session and should be able to add additional logging to suit explicit scenarios. You should also be able to organize a troubleshooting session efficiently so that you can get to the root cause of an issue much more quickly than you would have done before. The cheat sheet of CLI commands provided here should come in handy to collect any additional information.

In the next chapter, we will look at how to deploy firewalls in a cloud environment, and some of the unique considerations that come up when setting them to protect resources.

If you’re preparing for the PCNSE, remember that each plane has its own processes and logs can be found in the plane’s log directory.