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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

Bootstrapping a firewall

Bootstrapping the firewall pushes a pre-prepared configuration into a newly deployed firewall while it is being installed so it is immediately operational.

This can shave off valuable time when recovering from a failure or ramping up a deployment to deal with an increased load on the infrastructure.

To enable bootstrapping, you first need to create storage that can be accessed by the firewall while it is being deployed. For an ESXi deployment, for example, you can create a root folder on your workstation that contains the required subfolders (see Creating a bootstrap file share for the correct folder structure), put the folder into an ISO file (using your preferred ISO burner tool), and upload the ISO to an accessible VMFS/NFS file share so it can be loaded as a disk image when the firewall is deployed.

Cloud deployments require a storage account so you can store the few files that will be used during the bootstrapping phase.

From the Azure...