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Activate
Cortex Data Lake

This is how you activate
Cortex Data Lake
.
After purchasing
Cortex Data Lake
, you should have received an email with a link to activate
Cortex Data Lake
. Click on the link and follow the steps below to complete activation.
You do not need to follow this procedure if you have already activated
Cortex Data Lake
as part of another product purchase (for example,
Prisma Access
).
If you are using PAN-OS 10.0 or later firewalls, and if you were sharing telemetry data with Palo Alto Networks prior to purchasing a
Cortex Data Lake
license, then you already have a small, unlicensed
Cortex Data Lake
instance. This instance exists solely for the purpose of storing your PAN-OS telemetry data.
When you activate your license Palo Alto Networks will upgrade this tenant to a full
Cortex Data Lake
instance, so long as the region you use to send telemetry data to Palo Alto Networks is the same region that you use when you activate your
Cortex Data Lake
license. If you use different regions for this purpose, then the small telemetry-specific tenant will not upgrade to your new, licensed
Cortex Data Lake
instance.
  1. Click on the link in your purchase confirmation email.
  2. Select your
    Cortex Data Lake
    subscription and click
    Activate Subscription
    .
  3. Log in to the hub with your Palo Alto Networks Customer Support credentials.
  4. Select the customer support account that you want to associate with your subscription.
  5. If you are activating the
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance in a new tenant service group (TSG), select
    Create New
    from the Tenant drop-down list and then enter a tenant name.
    Or
    If you want to add the
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance to an existing TSG, select the TSG from the drop-down list. A tenant can have only one
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance running on it.
  6. Select the geographical
    Region
    for your
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance.
  7. Add a
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance to the TSG.
  8. Verify the storage space and region for your
    Cortex Data Lake
    instance. The default storage space for
    Cortex Data Lake
    data is set to 10 TB.
    If you choose to store data (after activation, onboard and configure your device and click
    Inventory
    > turn on
    Store Log Data
    to store log data),
    Cortex Data Lake
    will keep a record of your logs for future reference. If you choose not to,
    Cortex Data Lake
    will delete the logs after they are used for whatever analytics services you have subscribed to (for example, IoT Security), without saving a copy.
  9. Review your selections, Agree to the Terms and Conditions, and click
    Activate Now
    .

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