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    Cloud Management

    Learn how to onboard ZTP firewalls in Strata Cloud Manager.
    With a Business Administrator or greater role, access ZTP device activation to add a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager. To add the ZTP firewall, you must enter the firewall serial number and claim key provided by Palo Alto Networks and then register the firewall with the ZTP service. Registering the firewall claims the firewall as an asset in your account in the Customer Support Portal and allows the ZTP service to associate the firewall with Strata Cloud Manager.
    Before you can successfully add a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager, you must ensure that you have deployed a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server on the network. You must have a DHCP server configured to successfully onboard a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager. The ZTP firewall is unable to connect to the Palo Alto Networks ZTP service to facilitate onboarding without a DHCP server.
    You can't migrate a firewall added to Strata Cloud Manager using ZTP from one tenant to another.
    While adding a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager, don't perform any commits on the ZTP firewall before you verify that the firewall appears in Strata Cloud Manager according to the steps below. Performing a local commit on the ZTP firewall disables ZTP functionality and results in the failure to successfully add the firewall to Strata Cloud Manager.
    1. Activate the licenses required for Strata Cloud Manager.
      1. Activate Cortex Data Lake.
      2. Activate AIOps for NGFW.
    2. Onboard the ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager.
      1. With the role of Business Administrator or higher, access ZTP device activation.
      2. Select the tenant (if you have more than one in your CSP account).
      3. Enter the Serial Number of the ZTP firewall.
      4. Enter the Claim Key for the ZTP firewall.
      5. Activate the firewall.
    3. Connect the ethernet cable to Eth1/1 on the ZTP firewall and power on.
      Ensure that you have correctly cabled the firewall before powering it on. ZTP connection is a one-time event, and if it fails, you will need to take corrective action.
    4. Verify the firewall successfully onboarded to Strata Cloud Manager.
      1. Log in to Strata Cloud Manager.
      2. Select SettingsFirewall SetupDevice Management and verify the ZTP firewall appears.
    5. Move the firewall to a folder of your choice.
      Folders are used to logically group your firewalls for simplified configuration management.
      (HA only) Both firewalls must be in the same folder to configure HA. If you need to configure your firewalls in a high availability (HA) configuration, be sure to plan your folder structure accordingly and move both firewalls to the same folder before you configure HA.
      Additionally, firewalls in an HA configuration cannot be moved to a new folder. To move them, you must first break the HA configuration, move both firewalls to the new folder, and then reconfigure HA.
      1. Select SettingsFirewall SetupFolder Management and expand the All Firewalls folder.
      2. Expand the Actions menu and Move.
      3. Select the folder Destination and Move.
    6. Push Config to push your configuration changes.

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