gives you AI-powered, unified management and operations
for your NGFWs and SASE network. Here's a cheatsheet on getting started with
Strata Cloud Manager
for the first time.
If you're planning to use
Strata Cloud Manager
to onboard and manage Prisma
Access, NGFWs (requires AIOps for NGFW Premium), or both together, this includes
what you need to know to get started with Shared Management for Prisma Access and NGFWs
After
purchasing a license, you'll receive an email with an activation link. The
link launches a guided workflow in the hub; follow the activation workflow for each license you'd like
to activate:
to check your Prisma Access license status and
details, and see what other details might be available.
It might be that you do not see much data here just yet if
you've not yet onboarded NGFWs or if your Prisma Access
environment is still provisioning. If that's the case, check
back soon and after you've completed the rest of the steps
here.
Monitoring and Visibility with
Strata Cloud Manager
Explore the
Strata Cloud Manager
dashboards available to you. Many dashboards also
support reports that you can schedule or share with
stakeholders.
Monitor your Prisma Access environment, Prisma SD-WAN, and
your NGFWs.
Review your incidents and alerts across
Prisma Access, NGFWs, and Prisma SD-WAN.
Inline Best Practice Recommendations and Workflows
configuration settings, the current Manage: Configuration Scope is always visible to you,
and you can toggle your view to manage a broader or more granular
configuration. The configuration scope enables you to apply policy
globally, or provide targeted enforcement to certain NGFWs or Prisma
Access deployments.
Here's more on how to get started with organizing your
Use folders to logically group NGFWs
for simplified configuration management. The Prisma Access
folders are predefined based on deployment type. You can also
enable Web Security (a
simplified management experience for admins managing access to
the internet and SaaS applications) at the folder
level.
Use variables your configurations to
accommodate device or deployment-specific configuration
objects.
Shared Security Policy for NGFWs and Prisma Access
Strata Cloud Manager
gives you unified management for Prisma Access and
your NGFWs. Your
Strata Cloud Manager
vsecurity policy is shared,
and you can apply it globally across Prisma Access and NGFWs, or target
specific settings to Prisma Access deployments or specific groups of
firewalls.