Configure VPN Session Settings
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Configure VPN Session Settings

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Configure VPN Session Settings

Modify the default VPN session settings for your firewall.
Contact your account team to enable Cloud Management for NGFWs using Strata Cloud Manager.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
  • NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
  • AIOps for NGFW Premium license (use the Strata Cloud Manager app)
Configure the VPN session settings for your firewall to define the global settings related to the firewall establishing a VPN session. You can configure some or all of the VPN session settings for your firewall as needed.
  1. Log in to
    Strata Cloud Manager
    .
  2. Select
    Manage
    Configuration
    NGFW and Prisma Access
    Device Setup
    Session
    and select the Configuration Scope where you want to configure the VPN session settings.
    You can select a folder or firewall from your
    Folders
    or select
    Snippets
    to configure the VPN session settings in a snippet.
  3. Click the cog wheel to edit the VPN Session Settings and
    Customize
    .
    If you modified the VPN Session Settings for a nested folder or individual device, you can
    Revert to Inherited
    to revert the VPN Session Settings configuration from the
    Customized
    configuration to that inherited from the parent folder of the nester folder or that inherited from the folder the firewall is associated with.
  4. Set the
    Cookie Activation Threshold
    to specify a maximum number of IKEv2 half-open IKE SAs allowed per firewall, above which cookie validation is triggered.
    When the number of half-open IKE SAs exceeds the Cookie Activation Threshold, the Responder will request a cookie, and the Initiator must respond with an IKE_SA_INIT containing a cookie. If the cookie validation is successful, another SA session can be initiated.
    Range is
    0
    to
    65535
    ; default is
    500
    . A value of
    0
    means that cookie validation is always on.
    The Cookie Activation Threshold is a global firewall setting and should be lower than the
    Maximum Half Opened SA
    setting, which is also global.
  5. Set the
    Maximum Halfway Opened SA
    to specify the maximum number of IKEv2 half-open IKE SAs that Initiators can send to the firewall without getting a response.
    Once the maximum is reached, the firewall won’t respond to new IKE_SA_INIT packets.
    Range is
    0
    to
    65535
    ; default is
    65535
    .
  6. Set the
    Maximum Cached Certificates
    to specify the maximum number of peer certificate authority (CA) certificates retrieved via HTTP that the firewall can cache.
    This value is used only by the IKEv2 Hash and URL feature.
    Range is
    0
    to
    4000
    ; default is
    500
    .
  7. Save
    .
  8. (
    Optional
    ) Configure the remaining firewall session settings.
  9. Push Config
    to push your configuration changes.

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