Configure Service Routes
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Configure Service Routes

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Configure Service Routes

The following procedure enables you to configure service routes to change the interface that the firewall uses to send requests to external services such as the Palo Alto Network cloud services or for log forwarding. For firewalls in a high availability (HA) configuration, the service route configuration is synchronized across the HA peers
For firewalls in an active/passive high availability (HA), the service route you configured to leverage an external service or for log forwarding sees activity only on the
active
HA peer while the
passive
HA peer sees no activity if you configured an Ethernet interface as the
Source Interface
. For example, you configure a service route with Ethernet 1/3 as the source interface to forward logs to Cortex Data Lake. In this scenario, all logs are forwarded from the
active
HA peer but no logs, including the system and configuration logs, are forwarded from the
passive
HA peer. However, if you configure the MGT interface as the service route
Source Interface
, activity occurs on both the
active
and
passive
HA peers.
  1. Customize service routes.
    1. Select
      Device
      Setup
      Services
      Global
      (omit Global on a firewall without multiple virtual system capability), and in the Services Features section, click
      Service Route Configuration
      .
    2. Select
      Customize
      and do one of the following to create a service route:
      • For a predefined service:
        • Select
          IPv4
          or
          IPv6
          and click the link for the service for which you want customize the service route.
          To easily use the same source address for multiple services, select the checkbox for the services, click
          Set Selected Routes
          , and proceed to the next step.
        • To limit the list for Source Address, select a
          Source Interface
          ; then select a
          Source Address
          (from that interface) as the service route. An Address Object can also be referenced as a Source Address if it is already configured on the selected interface. Selecting
          Any
          Source Interface makes all IP addresses on all interfaces available in the Source Address list from which you select an address. Selecting
          Use default
          causes the firewall to use the management interface for the service route, unless the packet destination IP address matches the configured Destination IP address, in which case the source IP address is set to the
          Source Address
          configured for the
          Destination
          . Selecting
          MGT
          causes the firewall to use the MGT interface for the service route, regardless of any destination service route.
          The Service Route Source Address does not inherit configuration changes from the referenced interface and vice versa. Modification of an Interface IP Address to a different IP address or Address Object will not update a corresponding Service Route Source Address. This may lead to commit failure and require you to update the Service Route(s) to a valid Source Address value.
        • Click
          OK
          to save the setting.
        • Repeat this step if you want to specify both an IPv4 and IPv6 address for a service.
      • For a destination service route:
        • Select
          Destination
          and
          Add
          a
          Destination
          IP address. In this case, if a packet arrives with a destination IP address that matches this configured
          Destination
          address, then the source IP address of the packet will be set to the
          Source Address
          configured in the next step.
        • To limit the list for Source Address, select a
          Source Interface
          ; then select a
          Source Address
          (from that interface) as the service route. Selecting
          Any
          Source Interface makes all IP addresses on all interfaces available in the Source Address list from which you select an address. Selecting
          MGT
          causes the firewall to use the MGT interface for the service route.
        • Click
          OK
          to save the setting.
    3. Repeat the prior steps for each service route you want to customize.
    4. Click
      OK
      to save the service route configuration.
  2. Commit
    .

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