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Strata Cloud Manager Essentials and Pro
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Strata Cloud Manager Essentials and Pro
Learn about the Strata Cloud Manager Essentials and Pro.
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Strata Cloud Manager supports two licensing tiers:
Strata Cloud Manager Essentials
Strata Cloud Manager Essentials provides core management and security
features. It comes with the purchase of:
Strata Logging Service is available
as an optional add-on for Strata Cloud Manager Essentials. Strata Logging Service
provides centralized log storage and retrieval across your entire NGFW and Prisma
Access deployment, but you must purchase it separately for Strata Cloud Manager
Essentials.
Here are the key features in Strata Cloud Manager Essentials:
- Command Center and Activity Insights provide interactive dashboards that help you to know how Palo Alto Networks security services are protecting your network. You can interact with data on the applications, threats, users, and security subscriptions at work in your network.
- Configuration and Policy Management for NGFW and SASE provides centralized configuration management across all your firewalls and SASE environments. This ensures consistent security policy enforcement and simplifies administrative tasks.
- Best Practices Reporting helps you adopt NGFW and SASE services quickly by providing tools and recommendations to align configurations with industry best practices, improving the overall security posture.
- Health Insights and Alerts provide fundamental insights into the operational health of Prisma Access and NGFWs. These insights include deployment-wide status updates, key metrics such as traffic volumes, and proactive identification of potential hardware or software issues.
Strata Cloud Manager Pro
Strata Cloud Manager Pro provides advanced features on top of the
Essentials license. Strata Cloud Manager Pro includes Strata Logging Service, unlike the
Essentials version, and provides one year of log retention without requiring an
additional purchase. You can purchase Strata Cloud Manager Pro for the following
products:
Here are the key features in Strata Cloud Manager Pro:
- All the features available in Strata Cloud Manager Essentials
- Strata Logging Service provides centralized log storage and retrieval across your entire deployment, but you must purchase it separately for Strata Cloud Manager Essentials.
- AI-Powered Observability with ADEM: Strata Cloud Manager Pro integrates Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) for holistic observability across your network. ADEM helps to automate complex IT operations, reduce ticket volume, and shorten the mean time to resolution (MTTR).
- Real-time inline best practices provide proactive, context-aware recommendations directly within the web interface as you configure and manage security policies. This feature ensures that your configurations align with industry standards and Palo Alto Networks' security best practices, reducing misconfigurations and enhancing your overall security posture.
- AI-Powered Policy Analysis leverages advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze your security policies in real time, providing actionable insights to optimize, streamline, and strengthen your security posture. This feature automates the evaluation of complex policy sets, helping administrators make informed decisions to improve network security and performance.
- AI-Powered Operational Health includes enhanced operational health capabilities designed to anticipate and prevent issues before they impact your network. For example, forecasting and anomaly detection in alerts, Root Cause Analysis in alerts, and Capacity Analyzer.
- Software Upgrade Planner analyzes the features enabled on firewalls and provides a customized recommendation. You can create upgrade recommendations to identify the best software version for upgrading your devices.