User Interface Changes for Network Packet Broker
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User Interface Changes for Network Packet Broker

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User Interface Changes for Network Packet Broker

Network Packet Broker replaces the Decryption Broker feature introduced in PAN-OS 8.1 and expands its capabilities to include forwarding non-decrypted TLS and non-TLS traffic as well as decrypted TLS traffic to a security chain. To support Network Packet Broker, the PAN-OS 10.2 user interface has the following changes:
  • A new policy (
    Policies
    Network Packet Broker
    ) enables you to configure the specific traffic to forward to the security chain and attach a Packet Broker profile to control how to forward the specified traffic to the security chain.
    Decryption Broker used Decryption policy rules to forward only decrypted TLS traffic to the security chain. The new Network Packet Broker policy rules enable you to select not only decrypted TLS traffic, but also encrypted TLS traffic and non-TLS traffic.
  • A new profile (
    Objects
    Packet Broker Profile
    ) replaces the old
    Objects
    Decryption
    Decryption Broker Profile
    and enables you to configure exactly how to forward traffic to the security chain and monitor path and latency health. On the
    General
    tab, the names of the fields where you enter the dedicated firewall Network Packet Broker forwarding interface pair changed from “Primary Interface” and “Secondary Interface” to
    Interface #1
    and
    Interface #2
    , respectively.
  • When you select
    Policies
    Network Packet Broker
    , you can then select any of the Rule Usage options in
    Policy Optimizer
    to view Network Packet Broker policy usage information.
    Rule Usage
    statistics help you evaluate whether you need to keep unused Network Packet Broker rules or if you can delete them and tighten up the rulebase to reduce the attack surface.
  • Because Network Packet Broker replaced Decryption Broker, Decryption policy no longer handles brokering traffic to a security chain. For that reason, on the
    Options
    tab, the
    Decrypt and Forward
    option is no longer an
    Action
    that the policy can take, and the
    Forwarding Profile
    field was also removed because now only Decryption profiles are valid on Decryption policies.
  • In
    Network
    Interfaces
    Ethernet
    , when you set the
    Interface Type
    to Layer 3 and then select the
    Advanced
    tab, the name of the checkbox to enable the interface as forwarding interface for Network Packet Broker changed from “Decrypt Forward” to
    Network Packet Broker
    .
  • For
    Device
    Admin Roles
    , on the
    Web UI
    tab, there are two changes:
    • Under
      Policies
      , you can now configure
      Network Packet Broker
      admin role permissions.
    • Under
      Objects
      , the
      Decryption
      Forwarding Profile
      option is removed and replaced by the
      Packet Broker Profile
      option for admin role permissions.
  • On firewalls, for
    Monitor
    Manage Custom Reports
    , when you select
    Traffic Log
    from the Detailed Logs as the
    Database
    , in the
    Available Columns
    list, you can now select
    Forwarded to Security Chain
    .
    On Panorama, for
    Monitor
    Manage Custom Reports
    , when you select
    Panorama Traffic Log
    from the Detailed Logs as the
    Database
    , in the
    Available Columns
    list, you can now select
    Forwarded to Security Chain
    .
  • In the Traffic log, the “Decrypt Forward” column is renamed
    Forwarded to Security Chain
    . In the detailed view of the Traffic log, in the
    Flags
    section, the checkbox “Decrypt Forwarded” is renamed to
    Forwarded to Security Chain
    .
  • The free license for the feature is renamed from “Decryption Broker” to
    Packet Broker
    . If you have the free Decryption Broker license on your firewall, the name changes automatically when you upgrade to PAN-OS 10.1. The change is only in the name and has no effect on the feature.

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