To use the Panorama™ management server for managing Palo Alto Networks firewalls, you must add the firewalls as managed devices and then assign them to device groups and to templates or template stacks. The following tasks best suit a first-time firewall deployment. Before proceeding, review Plan Your Panorama Deployment to understand the deployment options.

To view the

Objects

and

Policies

tabs on the Panorama web interface, you must first create at least one device group. To view the

Network

and

Device

tabs, you must create at least one template. These tabs contain the options by which you configure and manage the firewalls on your network.