Strata Cloud Manager helps you to plan the upgrade of your devices by analyzing
them and creating upgrade recommendations.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
NGFW (Managed by PAN-OS or Panorama)
VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
AIOps for NGFW Premium license (use the Strata Cloud Manager app)
In WorkflowsSoftware UpgradesUpgrade Recommendations, you can use Strata Cloud Manager to analyze the enabled features on
firewalls and create 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 from device telemetry data
twice a week.
User-generated custom recommendations that are generated by selecting devices for
specific CVEs in PAN-OS CVEs.
view the number of devices that require an upgrade and the must fix
vulnerabilities.
edit the name of a recommendation to differentiate custom recommendations.
filter the recommendations by Creation Date,
Recommendations Name, and Recommendations
Generated By.
delete recommendations that failed or are no longer necessary.
Generate On-Demand Upgrade Recommendations
From Upgrade Recommendations, Generate On
Demand Upgrade Recommendations.
Select a Tech Support File (TSF) and
Upload.
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
Ready.
You can also check the Status column to see if there
are any errors related to the upload, file format, or processing of the TSF
file.
View Software Upgrade Recommendation Report
Click a recommendation to view the detailed report with the upgrade options for the
devices. Choose an upgrade option to view further details about New
Features, Changes of Behavior,
Vulnerabilities Based on Enabled Features, and
PAN-OS Known Issues. You can click
Export to download this report in a CSV format.
The recommendation report is generated based on the enabled features
within your devices.
For a known issue under PAN-OS Known Issues, the
value under Associated Case Count is obtained by the
number of customers who have reported this issue.