Strata Cloud Manager
Workflows: Software Upgrades
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Workflows: Software Upgrades
Use to
Strata Cloud Manager
to plan and manage your software upgrades for NGFW
and Prisma Access
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Use
Strata Cloud Manager
to plan and manage your software upgrades for NGFWs and Prisma Access
.NGFW
Learn how to plan the upgrade of your devices by analyzing them and creating upgrade
recommendations.
Select to plan the upgrade of your devices by analyzing them and creating
upgrade recommendations.
Upgrade Recommendations
In , you can create recommendations to determine the best software
version for your devices that can be upgraded. Software Upgrade Recommendations
analyzes the features enabled on firewalls and provides a customized recommendation
that includes:
- Best software version for your devices that you can upgrade.
- Information about new features, changes to behavior, vulnerabilities and software issues in each recommended software version.
The types of upgrade recommendations are:
- System-generated recommendations that are generated every week and contain the suggested upgrade options.
- User-generated custom recommendations that are generated based on the selected devices for specific CVEs in Security Advisory Summary.
- User-generated recommendations that are generated based on the upload of a Tech Support File (TSF) of a firewall.
For every plan in
Upgrade Recommendations
, you
can:- view the number of devices that require an upgrade and the must fix vulnerabilities.
- edit the name of a recommendation report to differentiate custom reports.
- filter the recommendation reports by Creation Date, Plan Name, and Recommendations Generated By.
- delete an upgrade recommendation that is failed or no longer required.
Click a recommendation report to view the detailed report with the upgrade options
for the devices. Select an upgrade option to view further details about
New Features
, PAN-OS Known
Vulnerabilities
, Changes of Behavior
and
PAN-OS Known Issues
. For a known issue under
PAN-OS Known Issues
, the value under
Associated Case Count
is obtained by the number of
customers that have reported this issue.Click
Export
to download this report in a CSV format.Generate On-Demand Software Upgrade Recommendations
- Navigate toWorkflows > Software Upgrades > Upgrade Recommendations.
- Generate New Upgrade Recommendations.
- Selecta Tech Support File (TSF) andUpload.
- You can upload TSF of only one device at a time and it must be TSF in the .tgz file format.
- Software Upgrade Recommendations supports TSF from devices with the PAN-OS version 9.1 or above for report generation.
- View the software upgrade recommendations after the status is displayed asReady. You can also check theStatuscolumn to see if there are any errors related to the upload, file format, or processing of the TSF file.
Prisma Access
Select to view information about the Prisma Access dataplane upgrade
process.
You can:
- Understand the Prisma Access dataplane upgrade process.
- Choose your upgrade preferences:
Select a tenant name to choose your upgrade preferences. For more information, see
Choose a Preferred Window for Certain Prisma
Access Upgrades.