Tag Archives: Panorama

Editing Palo Configs by Scripts: pan-os-php

There are recurring cases where tasks cannot be edited quickly and easily using the classic Palo Alto Networks GUI or Panorama. For example, editing multiple policies at once, such as during a zone migration. Or checking which policies haven’t log forwarding enabled, hence enabling it directly. Or finding unused objects, including deleting them.

For these situations (and many more!), there’s a tool with a wealth of predefined scripts: pan-os-php. This first blog post covers installation and some initial use cases.

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Palo Alto Firewall: Installation from Scratch till Panorama

This is my basic checklist when installing a new Palo Alto firewall. I used it for a few clusters during the last weeks. It shows the steps required for a PA firewall from the unpacking until it is plugged into Panorama, the central management platform from Palo Alto.

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