Management Features
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PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
- PAN-OS 10.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.1 (EoL)
- Cloud Management of NGFWs
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- Management Interfaces
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- Launch the Web Interface
- Use the Administrator Login Activity Indicators to Detect Account Misuse
- Manage and Monitor Administrative Tasks
- Commit, Validate, and Preview Firewall Configuration Changes
- Commit Selective Configuration Changes
- Export Configuration Table Data
- Use Global Find to Search the Firewall or Panorama Management Server
- Manage Locks for Restricting Configuration Changes
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- Define Access to the Web Interface Tabs
- Provide Granular Access to the Monitor Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Policy Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Objects Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Network Tab
- Provide Granular Access to the Device Tab
- Define User Privacy Settings in the Admin Role Profile
- Restrict Administrator Access to Commit and Validate Functions
- Provide Granular Access to Global Settings
- Provide Granular Access to the Panorama Tab
- Provide Granular Access to Operations Settings
- Panorama Web Interface Access Privileges
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- Reset the Firewall to Factory Default Settings
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- Plan Your Authentication Deployment
- Pre-Logon for SAML Authentication
- Configure SAML Authentication
- Configure Kerberos Single Sign-On
- Configure Kerberos Server Authentication
- Configure TACACS+ Authentication
- Configure TACACS Accounting
- Configure RADIUS Authentication
- Configure LDAP Authentication
- Configure Local Database Authentication
- Configure an Authentication Profile and Sequence
- Test Authentication Server Connectivity
- Troubleshoot Authentication Issues
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- Keys and Certificates
- Default Trusted Certificate Authorities (CAs)
- Certificate Deployment
- Configure the Master Key
- Export a Certificate and Private Key
- Configure a Certificate Profile
- Configure an SSL/TLS Service Profile
- Configure an SSH Service Profile
- Replace the Certificate for Inbound Management Traffic
- Configure the Key Size for SSL Forward Proxy Server Certificates
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- HA Overview
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- Prerequisites for Active/Active HA
- Configure Active/Active HA
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- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Route-Based Redundancy
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Floating IP Addresses
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with ARP Load-Sharing
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Floating IP Address Bound to Active-Primary Firewall
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA with Source DIPP NAT Using Floating IP Addresses
- Use Case: Configure Separate Source NAT IP Address Pools for Active/Active HA Firewalls
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA for ARP Load-Sharing with Destination NAT
- Use Case: Configure Active/Active HA for ARP Load-Sharing with Destination NAT in Layer 3
- HA Clustering Overview
- HA Clustering Best Practices and Provisioning
- Configure HA Clustering
- Refresh HA1 SSH Keys and Configure Key Options
- HA Firewall States
- Reference: HA Synchronization
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- Use the Dashboard
- Monitor Applications and Threats
- Monitor Block List
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- Report Types
- View Reports
- Configure the Expiration Period and Run Time for Reports
- Disable Predefined Reports
- Custom Reports
- Generate Custom Reports
- Generate the SaaS Application Usage Report
- Manage PDF Summary Reports
- Generate User/Group Activity Reports
- Manage Report Groups
- Schedule Reports for Email Delivery
- Manage Report Storage Capacity
- View Policy Rule Usage
- Use External Services for Monitoring
- Configure Log Forwarding
- Configure Email Alerts
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- Configure Syslog Monitoring
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- Traffic Log Fields
- Threat Log Fields
- URL Filtering Log Fields
- Data Filtering Log Fields
- HIP Match Log Fields
- GlobalProtect Log Fields
- IP-Tag Log Fields
- User-ID Log Fields
- Decryption Log Fields
- Tunnel Inspection Log Fields
- SCTP Log Fields
- Authentication Log Fields
- Config Log Fields
- System Log Fields
- Correlated Events Log Fields
- GTP Log Fields
- Audit Log Fields
- Syslog Severity
- Custom Log/Event Format
- Escape Sequences
- Forward Logs to an HTTP/S Destination
- Firewall Interface Identifiers in SNMP Managers and NetFlow Collectors
- Monitor Transceivers
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- User-ID Overview
- Enable User-ID
- Map Users to Groups
- Enable User- and Group-Based Policy
- Enable Policy for Users with Multiple Accounts
- Verify the User-ID Configuration
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- App-ID Overview
- App-ID and HTTP/2 Inspection
- Manage Custom or Unknown Applications
- Safely Enable Applications on Default Ports
- Applications with Implicit Support
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- Prepare to Deploy App-ID Cloud Engine
- Enable or Disable the App-ID Cloud Engine
- App-ID Cloud Engine Processing and Policy Usage
- New App Viewer (Policy Optimizer)
- Add Apps to an Application Filter with Policy Optimizer
- Add Apps to an Application Group with Policy Optimizer
- Add Apps Directly to a Rule with Policy Optimizer
- Replace an RMA Firewall (ACE)
- Impact of License Expiration or Disabling ACE
- Commit Failure Due to Cloud Content Rollback
- Troubleshoot App-ID Cloud Engine
- Application Level Gateways
- Disable the SIP Application-level Gateway (ALG)
- Maintain Custom Timeouts for Data Center Applications
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- Policy Types
- Policy Objects
- Track Rules Within a Rulebase
- Enforce Policy Rule Description, Tag, and Audit Comment
- Move or Clone a Policy Rule or Object to a Different Virtual System
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- External Dynamic List
- Built-in External Dynamic Lists
- Configure the Firewall to Access an External Dynamic List
- Retrieve an External Dynamic List from the Web Server
- View External Dynamic List Entries
- Exclude Entries from an External Dynamic List
- Enforce Policy on an External Dynamic List
- Find External Dynamic Lists That Failed Authentication
- Disable Authentication for an External Dynamic List
- Register IP Addresses and Tags Dynamically
- Use Dynamic User Groups in Policy
- Use Auto-Tagging to Automate Security Actions
- CLI Commands for Dynamic IP Addresses and Tags
- Application Override Policy
- Test Policy Rules
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- Network Segmentation Using Zones
- How Do Zones Protect the Network?
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PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.1 & Later
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
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- Tap Interfaces
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- Layer 2 and Layer 3 Packets over a Virtual Wire
- Port Speeds of Virtual Wire Interfaces
- LLDP over a Virtual Wire
- Aggregated Interfaces for a Virtual Wire
- Virtual Wire Support of High Availability
- Zone Protection for a Virtual Wire Interface
- VLAN-Tagged Traffic
- Virtual Wire Subinterfaces
- Configure Virtual Wires
- Configure a PPPoE Client on a Subinterface
- Configure an IPv6 PPPoE Client
- Configure an Aggregate Interface Group
- Configure Bonjour Reflector for Network Segmentation
- Use Interface Management Profiles to Restrict Access
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- DHCP Overview
- Firewall as a DHCP Server and Client
- Firewall as a DHCPv6 Client
- DHCP Messages
- Dynamic IPv6 Addressing on the Management Interface
- Configure an Interface as a DHCP Server
- Configure an Interface as a DHCPv4 Client
- Configure an Interface as a DHCPv6 Client with Prefix Delegation
- Configure the Management Interface as a DHCP Client
- Configure the Management Interface for Dynamic IPv6 Address Assignment
- Configure an Interface as a DHCP Relay Agent
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- DNS Overview
- DNS Proxy Object
- DNS Server Profile
- Multi-Tenant DNS Deployments
- Configure a DNS Proxy Object
- Configure a DNS Server Profile
- Use Case 1: Firewall Requires DNS Resolution
- Use Case 2: ISP Tenant Uses DNS Proxy to Handle DNS Resolution for Security Policies, Reporting, and Services within its Virtual System
- Use Case 3: Firewall Acts as DNS Proxy Between Client and Server
- DNS Proxy Rule and FQDN Matching
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- NAT Rule Capacities
- Dynamic IP and Port NAT Oversubscription
- Dataplane NAT Memory Statistics
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- Translate Internal Client IP Addresses to Your Public IP Address (Source DIPP NAT)
- Create a Source NAT Rule with Persistent DIPP
- PAN-OS
- Strata Cloud Manager
- Enable Clients on the Internal Network to Access your Public Servers (Destination U-Turn NAT)
- Enable Bi-Directional Address Translation for Your Public-Facing Servers (Static Source NAT)
- Configure Destination NAT with DNS Rewrite
- Configure Destination NAT Using Dynamic IP Addresses
- Modify the Oversubscription Rate for DIPP NAT
- Reserve Dynamic IP NAT Addresses
- Disable NAT for a Specific Host or Interface
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- Network Packet Broker Overview
- How Network Packet Broker Works
- Prepare to Deploy Network Packet Broker
- Configure Transparent Bridge Security Chains
- Configure Routed Layer 3 Security Chains
- Network Packet Broker HA Support
- User Interface Changes for Network Packet Broker
- Limitations of Network Packet Broker
- Troubleshoot Network Packet Broker
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- Enable Advanced Routing
- Logical Router Overview
- Configure a Logical Router
- Create a Static Route
- Configure BGP on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create BGP Routing Profiles
- Create Filters for the Advanced Routing Engine
- Configure OSPFv2 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create OSPF Routing Profiles
- Configure OSPFv3 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create OSPFv3 Routing Profiles
- Configure RIPv2 on an Advanced Routing Engine
- Create RIPv2 Routing Profiles
- Create BFD Profiles
- Configure IPv4 Multicast
- Configure MSDP
- Create Multicast Routing Profiles
- Create an IPv4 MRoute
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PAN-OS 9.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 11.2
- PAN-OS 11.1
- PAN-OS 11.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 10.2
- PAN-OS 10.1
- PAN-OS 10.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.1 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 9.0 (EoL)
- PAN-OS 8.1 (EoL)
- Cloud Management and AIOps for NGFW
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- Changes to Default Behavior
- Associated Software and Content Versions
- Limitations
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- PAN-OS 9.0.17 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.15 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.14 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.13 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.12 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.11 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.10 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.9 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.8 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.7 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.6 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.5 (and 9.0.5-h3) Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.4 Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.3 (and 9.0.3-h2 and 9.0.3-h3) Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.2 (and 9.0.2-h4) Known Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.1 Known Issues
- Known Issues Specific to the WildFire Appliance
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- PAN-OS 9.0.17-h5 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.17-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.17-h1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.17 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16-h7 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16-h6 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16-h5 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16-h2 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.16 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.15 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.14-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.14-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.14 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.13 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.12 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.11 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.10 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.9-h1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.9 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.8 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.7 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.6 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.5-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.5 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.3-h3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.3-h2 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.3 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.2-h4 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.2 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.1 Addressed Issues
- PAN-OS 9.0.0 Addressed Issues
End-of-Life (EoL)
Management Features
Learn about the new management features introduced in
PAN-OS 9.0.
New Management Feature | Description |
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Cortex™ Data Lake Logging for Firewalls without Panorama™ | Palo Alto Networks Cortex
Data Lake provides cloud-based, centralized log storage and aggregation
for firewalls and services. With Cortex Data Lake, Palo Alto Networks
takes care of the ongoing maintenance and monitoring of your logging
infrastructure so that you can focus on your business. Until
PAN-OS® 9.0.3, Panorama was required to onboard firewalls
to Cortex Data Lake and to view logs stored in Cortex Data Lake.
Now, with PAN-OS 9.0.3 and later releases, you can enable non-Panorama managed firewalls to
securely connect and send logs to Cortex Data Lake. |
Enforcement
of Description, Tag and Audit Comment | As your team creates and modifies rules, the rationale for creating or modifying rules are lost over time. To capture the reason for rule creation and modification, you can now require a description, tag, or audit comment to maintain rule revision history for auditing. For example, if you are creating a new app-based security policy rule to replace a port-based rule, enforce these rule creation elements to ensure that the rule is appropriately grouped, and that the administrator describes the purpose of the rule. |
Rule Changes Archive | When you create or modify policy rules, you now have revision history to audit changes. To track and analyze how your policy rules have evolved over time, you can review the audit comment history and see differences between two rule versions. Combined with the new Enforcement of Rule Description, Tag and Audit Comment (see above), you can enforce audit comments with every rule creation and modification to ensure that the audit comment history is maintained for your policy rulebases. |
Tag Based Rule Groups | Visually group related rules using a new group tag to efficiently
manage large sets of related rules within any policy rulebase. You
can use any tag as a group tag to organize related rules so that
you can easily move, clone, or delete the rules in the selected group.
This allows you to visually see the organizational changes that are
happening to your rulebase, and increase the efficiency of managing large
sets of rules. |
Policy Match and Connectivity Tests from
the Web Interface | Validate policy configuration changes of one or more firewalls directly from the web interface to ensure network traffic matches the policy rules as expected. In addition to validating policy, you can also test that firewalls can reach network resources. With the ability to run test commands on the web interface, you can avoid over-provisioning administrator roles with CLI access while still giving administrators a way to determine firewalls are configured correctly. |
Rule Usage Filtering | When auditing your rulebase,
you can now filter and quickly identify unused
rules to manage policy rules. Removing unused rules improves
your security posture by reducing the proliferation of rules. For
example, when transitioning from port-based rules to App-ID™ based
rules, this information enables you to assess whether your App-ID
based rules are matched instead of your port-based rules so that
you can remove the unused rules. |
Object Capacity Improvements on the PA-5220
and the PA-3200 Series Firewalls | To help you scale your deployment and ease
the migration to Palo Alto Networks firewalls, the PA-5220 and the
PA-3200 Series firewalls have increased capacities for
several objects, including increases in the number of address objects,
address groups, service groups, service objects, zones, and policy
rules. |
API Key Lifetime | If you are using the firewall or Panorama
APIs to enable programmatic access, you can now specify the API key lifetime to match
the automation task duration and control the validity period for
an authenticated and secure connection between the firewall/Panorama
and the automation program or service. Because each API call requires
the API key, using a key with a limited lifetime allows you to enforce
key rotation at a regular cadence to safeguard your network and
adhere to compliance standards. You can also expire all API keys
simultaneously, if you suspect accidental exposure or a leak. |
PAN-OS REST API for a Simplified Automation/Integration Experience | In addition to the existing XML API, the
firewalls and Panorama now support a REST API for a more simplified
API integration. With the REST API, the firewall is represented
as a set of resources with URIs on which you can perform operations
that allow you to easily map firewall tasks to the API interface.
For example, Security policy is represented as a REST resource with
URI /restapi/9.0/Policies/SecurityRules and has a list of operations
that includes list, create, edit, delete, move, and rename. The
REST API provides the flexibility to use JSON and XML data formats
in API requests and responses, and supports versioning for backward
compatibility with future PAN-OS releases. The initial release of
this API allows you to manage the configuration of policies and
objects on the firewall and Panorama and provides reference documentation
that is built in to the product. |
Universally Unique Identifiers
for Policy Rules | To simplify auditing, searching,
reporting, and tracking for configuration changes to rules, universally unique identifiers
(UUIDs) are created for all policy rulebases that you create
on the firewall or push from Panorama. If you rename or delete the
rule, the UUID ensures that the rule’s history of changes is maintained.
The UUID can pinpoint the rule across multiple rulebases containing
thousands of rules that may have similar or identical names, and
simplifies automation and integration for rules into third-party
systems (such as ticketing or orchestration) that do not support
names. |
Temporary Master Key Expiration Extension | You can now extend the lifetime of the master key directly from the firewall or from Panorama until your next available maintenance window. If the master key is due to expire before your planned maintenance window, the key extension allows the firewall to remain operational and continue securing your network. |
Real-Time Enforcement and Expanded Capacities
for Dynamic Address Groups | To enforce security policy for entities such as IoT devices, virtual workloads, and containers that have bursts of traffic or short lifecycles, the firewalls can now update the list of registered IP addresses within a dynamic address group in real time. This enhancement enables the firewall to register IP addresses that match the tags you have defined in dynamic address groups and instantly apply policy as soon as the endpoint is online, and then unregister the IP addresses automatically based on a time limit that you configure. And to make it easier for you to monitor and troubleshoot these registered IP addresses, Panorama and the firewall now include a new IP-Tag log. Lastly, to handle a larger volume of entities, select firewall models now have up to five-times more capacity for registered IP addresses. |