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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

Setting up Panorama

Before you get started, you will first need to decide how you want to deploy Panorama as there are many options available that can influence your choices. Panorama can be deployed as a physical appliance or a VM image, both locally and in the cloud. All of these options have their advantages over the others. A physical appliance can either be deployed as a Panorama instance or as a log collector, which can be bundled and spread out to make it more resilient and bandwidth-efficient, while keeping physical control over logs. VMs are very easy to deploy and run on nearly all common hypervisors that are likely already available, so no hardware is needed to deploy them. Cloud-based Panorama allows the admin optimal access from any location for management and firewall access.

If Panorama is to be deployed as a VM, the first step is to determine the minimum system prerequisites.

Panorama VM in Management-Only Mode

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