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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

External logging

As well as native logging to Palo Alto Network products, you can also forward logs to syslog servers, email them out, send SNMP traps, or forward to an HTTP server.

To be able to forward logs, we will first need to create server profiles that we can later use when we set up forwarding.

For SNMP, we can create a new profile in Device | Server Profiles | SNMP Trap. Here, we can choose V2c or V3 SNMP compatibility and provide connectivity details of the SNMP server. Unless absolutely necessary, avoid using V2c as this version is no longer a secure option.

If ENGINEID is left blank, as in the following screenshot, the firewall will insert its serial number:

Figure 9.7 – SNMP v3 server profile

Figure 9.8: SNMP v3 server profile

For syslog, we can create a profile in Device | Server Profiles | Syslog. We have the option of forwarding over UDP, TCP, or SSL. If possible, select SSL as these logs should be considered highly sensitive, and forwarding them as plaintext can generally be...