Next-Generation Firewall
Add a ZTP Firewall to Strata Cloud Manager
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Add a ZTP Firewall to Strata Cloud Manager
Add your Zero Touch Provisioning firewall to Strata Cloud Manager.
Contact your account team to enable Cloud Management for NGFWs using
Strata Cloud Manager.
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With a Business Administrator or greater role, access ZTP device activation to add a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager. To add the ZTP firewall, you must enter the firewall serial
number and claim key provided by Palo Alto Networks and then register the firewall
with the ZTP service. Registering the firewall claims the firewall as an asset in
your account in the Customer Support Portal and allows the ZTP service to associate
the firewall with Strata Cloud Manager.
Before you can successfully add a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager,
you must ensure that you have deployed a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
server on the network. You must have a DHCP server configured to successfully
onboard a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager. The ZTP firewall is unable to
connect to the Palo Alto Networks ZTP service to facilitate onboarding without a
DHCP server.
You can't migrate a firewall added to Strata Cloud Manager using ZTP from one tenant to another.
While adding a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager, don't perform any
commits on the ZTP firewall before you verify that the firewall appears in Strata Cloud Manager according to the steps below. Performing a local commit on the
ZTP firewall disables ZTP functionality and results in the failure to successfully
add the firewall to Strata Cloud Manager.
- Activate the licenses required for Strata Cloud Manager.
- Activate Strata Logging Service.Activate AIOps for NGFW.(Optional) Create a Device Onboarding Rule to associate the firewall with a folder and push a configuration when the firewall first connects to Strata Cloud Manager.Onboard the ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager.
- With the role of Business Administrator or higher, access ZTP device activation.Select the tenant (if you have more than one in your CSP account).Enter the Serial Number of the ZTP firewall.Enter the Claim Key for the ZTP firewall.Activate the firewall.Connect the ethernet cable to Eth1/1 on the ZTP firewall and power on.Ensure that you have correctly cabled the firewall before powering it on. ZTP connection is a one-time event, and if it fails, you will need to take corrective action.Only Ethernet 1/1 is supported to successfully onboard a ZTP firewall to Strata Cloud Manager. You must keep Ethernet 1/1 connected after onboarding to continue managing on Strata Cloud Manager.Verify the firewall successfully onboarded to Strata Cloud Manager.
- Log in to Strata Cloud Manager.Select and verify the ZTP firewall appears.Move the firewall to a folder of your choice.Folders are used to logically group your firewalls for simplified configuration management. Skip this step if you created a device onboarding rule to automatically move the firewall to a target folder.(HA only) Both firewalls must be in the same folder to configure HA. If you need to configure your firewalls in a high availability (HA) configuration, be sure to plan your folder structure accordingly and move both firewalls to the same folder before you configure HA.Additionally, firewalls in an HA configuration cannot be moved to a new folder. To move them, you must first break the HA configuration, move both firewalls to the new folder, and then reconfigure HA.
- Select and expand the All Firewalls folder.Expand the Actions menu and Move.Select the folder Destination and Move.Push Config to push your configuration changes.Finally, check the Strata Cloud Manager Command Center and confirm that your firewall appears in the Summary view.
