You can manage up to 200 standalone WildFire appliances and WildFire appliance cluster nodes centrally using a Panorama M-Series or virtual appliance. Compared to managing WildFire appliances and appliance clusters individually using the local CLI, using Panorama provides centralized management and monitoring of multiple appliances and appliance clusters. Centralized management enables you to push common configurations, configuration updates, and software upgrades to all or a subset of the managed WildFire appliances, which makes it easy to ensure that WildFire appliances and appliance clusters have consistent configurations.

To establish centralized management, ensure that you Add Standalone WildFire Appliances to Manage with Panorama. This process requires compatible PAN-OS versions and a Device Registration Auth Key to securely authenticate the appliance with Panorama upon its first connection. After onboarding, configure Basic WildFire Appliance Settings on Panorama, such as defining content update servers, logging destinations, and authentication profiles. These settings are pre-populated with defaults or existing local settings but can be customized and pushed centrally.

Set Up Authentication Using Custom Certificates on WildFire Appliances and Clusters to enhance security. While devices use predefined certificates by default, custom certificates allow you to establish a unique chain of trust for mutual authentication between Panorama and the managed WildFire devices.

To increase sample analysis and storage capacity through interconnected appliances, you can Manage WildFire Clusters. Panorama allows you to configure controller and worker nodes to improve performance and resiliency.

Finally, if you no longer require centralized management, you can Remove a WildFire Appliance from Panorama Management, at which point the appliance reverts to local management via the CLI.