Manage Cloud NGFW for Azure Tenant
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Manage Cloud NGFW for Azure Tenant

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Manage Cloud NGFW for Azure Tenant

Manage Cloud NGFW for Azure user roles.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • Cloud NGFW for Azure
  • Cloud NGFW subscription
  • Palo Alto Networks Customer Support Portal account
  • Azure Marketplace subscription
At any time, you can modify a user’s role or roles to expand or reduce their access and permissions. You can also delete a user. And individual users can view their roles and change their name or password as necessary. Information provided here is helpful for custom role creation, like creating a firewall read-only user. By default, Cloud NGFW requires owner or contributor roles on the subscription to subscribe to the resource provider and to use the Cloud NGFW resource.
See Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal for information about managing Cloud NGFW roles.
At any time, you can modify a user’s role or roles to expand or reduce their access and permissions. You can also delete a user. And individual users can view their roles and change their name or password as necessary.

Manage User Roles

Use the following procedure to manage user roles:
  1. Select SettingsUser and Roles.
  2. Select the name of the user.
  3. Modify the First Name and Last Name if necessary.
  4. Modify the user’s Roles & Scope. To add a role:
    1. Click Add Role.
    2. Select the Role and Scope from the respective drop-downs.
      To delete a role:
    3. Click the delete icon (
      ) located to the right of the rule.
  5. Click Save.

Delete a User

If you need to completely remove a user’s access and permissions, you can delete that user.
  1. Select SettingsUser and Roles.
  2. Select the check box to the left of the user’s name.
  3. Select ActionsDelete.
  4. Click Save.

Edit User Information

A non-tenant administrator can update their name or change their password if needed. However, they cannot modify their assigned roles.
  1. Select SettingsUser and Roles.
  2. Select the name of the user.
  3. Modify the First Name and Last Name if necessary.
  4. To change a password:
    1. Click Change Password.
    2. Enter the Current Password.
    3. Enter and re-enter the New Password.
  5. Click Change.
    Changing the password logs you out of the Cloud NGFW tenant. Log back in using the new password.
  6. Click Save.