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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

Panorama management

In this section, we will learn about the simple management tasks that you would normally need to perform on each firewall individually, which can be very time-consuming, and how these can be centralized and made much easier to manage from Panorama. The first task of an administrator is to make sure all firewalls have up-to-date signatures and content packages.

Device deployment

Content updates can be managed through Panorama in two ways. A template can be created that sets a local update schedule on each firewall, which will require each firewall to connect to the update server individually and collect and install updates. A second method is setting an update schedule on Panorama and pushing out updates to all devices. This last method gives you a little more control over what is being pushed to the managed firewalls and when, but does increase bandwidth usage on the Panorama site or cloud provider.

To schedule updates that are sent out from Panorama...