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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

Configuring log forwarding

The firewall will not automatically forward all logs to Panorama or Logging Service. Log forwarding needs to be configured and assigned to specific logs or log types before anything is sent out. Two main types of logs can be forwarded:

  • System event logs
  • Traffic flow-related logs

Device daemon-related logs are only stored locally.

Important note

Only logs that are being stored locally can be forwarded. Any rule, policy, or profile that is set to not log also cannot generate logs to be forwarded. Forwarded logs will also remain available locally (for as long as storage allows for the log to be retained); they are not purged after being forwarded.

In the firewall, you can check whether log forwarding is available and working with the following commands:

> request log-collector-forwarding status
> request logging-service-forwarding status

Let’s first take a look at the system logs.

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