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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 about the Panorama central management platform and how it can be leveraged to make managing groups, clusters, and geographically spread out firewalls, users, and locations much less complex. You learned how device group configuration and templates can be used to simplify and make configuration consistent across all of your managed devices.

If you’re preparing for the PCNSE, take note of what the templates and device groups are for. You should be able to explain how firewalls are deployed and managed from Panorama. Also, take special note of the automatic commit recovery, as this is part of the PCNSE blueprint.

In the next chapter, we will review the best practices for upgrading firewalls and Panorama.