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M-600 Appliance for PAN-DB Private Cloud

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M-600 Appliance for PAN-DB Private Cloud

Learn about deploying a Palo Alto Networks M-600 appliance in private cloud mode and differences between the PAN-DB public and private clouds.

Where can I use this?	What do I need?
PAN-OS	Advanced URL Filtering license (or a legacy URL filtering license) Note: Legacy URL filtering licenses are discontinued, but active legacy licenses are still supported.

To deploy a PAN-DB private cloud, you need one or more M-600 appliances. The M-600 appliance ships in Panorama mode, and to be deployed as PAN-DB private cloud you must set it up to operate in PAN-URL-DB mode. In the PAN-URL-DB mode, the appliance provides URL categorization services for enterprises that do not want to use the PAN-DB public cloud.

The M-600 appliance when deployed as a PAN-DB private cloud uses two ports- MGT (Eth0) and Eth1; Eth2 is not available for use. The management port is used for administrative access to the appliance and for obtaining the latest content updates from the PAN-DB public cloud or from a server on your network. For communication between the PAN-DB private cloud and the firewalls on the network, you can use the MGT port or Eth1.

The M-200 appliance cannot be deployed as a PAN-DB private cloud.

The M-600 appliance in PAN-URL-DB mode:

Does not have a web interface, it only supports a command line interface (CLI).

Cannot be managed by Panorama.

Cannot be deployed in a high availability pair.

Does not require a URL Filtering license. The firewalls, must have a valid PAN-DB URL Filtering license to connect with and query the PAN-DB private cloud.

Ships with a set of default server certificates that are used to authenticate the firewalls that connect to the PAN-DB private cloud. You cannot import or use another server certificate for authenticating the firewalls. If you change the hostname on the M-600 appliance, the appliance automatically generates a new set of certificates to authenticate the firewalls that it services.

Can be reset to Panorama mode only. If you want to deploy the appliance as a Dedicated Log Collector, switch to Panorama mode and then set it in Log Collector mode.

How PAN-DB Private Cloud Works

Set Up PAN-DB Private Cloud