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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

Log storage

In its standalone configuration, a firewall has somewhere between a few terabytes of storage on high-end devices and a few gigabytes on low-end devices for logs (the PA-410 doesn’t even have local log storage). This space then has to be split up among all the different log databases, such as Traffic, Threat, URL filtering, WildFire, and several others. This could cause a skewed perception of how much log storage is actually available and, combined with high traffic volumes, this could lead to the system having only enough storage for a couple of days’ worth of logs.

To review the current log capacity and what percentage of the capacity has been assigned to individual databases, check Device | Setup | Management | Logging and Reporting Settings. You can change how much space is reserved for each log database by changing the percentage next to each log database. Keep in mind that changing the allocated space after the system has already been collecting...