Generate, Schedule, and Email Reports

Configure Panorama predefined reports.
Select

Panorama

Setup

Management

and edit

Logging and Reporting

.

(

Optional

) Select

Log Export and Reporting

and enable (check)

Use Data for Pre-Defined Reports

to offload hourly report aggregation to Log Collectors.

Enabling this setting is recommended for VM-50, VM-50 Lite and PA-200 firewalls.

Select

Pre-Defined Reports

and enable (check) predefined reports to push from Panorama.

Select

Commit

Commit to Panorama

and

Commit

your configuration changes.

(

VM-50, VM-50 Lite, and PA-200 firewalls only

) Access the firewall CLI to enable predefined reports..

This command must be run on each VM-50, VM-50 Lite, and PA-200 firewall.

admin> 
debug run-panorama-predefined-report yes
Configure Panorama to receive and store user and user group information that it receives from firewalls.
Required to generate reports based on usernames and groups instead of just IP addresses.
If you want Panorama to include user group information in reports, upgrade the managed firewalls to PAN-OS 8.1.0 or a later release. Panorama cannot synchronize group information from firewalls running earlier releases.
Select
Panorama
Setup
Management
, edit the Panorama Settings, and
Enable reporting and filtering on groups
.
Add a Device Group if you haven’t already. For each device group:
Select a
Master Device
, which is the firewall that provides user and user group information to Panorama.
Enable Panorama to
Store users and groups from Master Device
.
Generate reports.
Scheduled and Run Now summary reports for the same database and timeframe have discrepancies in the data displayed in each report. This is due to how Log Collectors and firewalls aggregate logs during hourly aggregation.
The steps to generate a report depend on the type.
Custom report:
Select
Monitor
Manage Custom Reports
and
Add
the report.
Enter a
Name
to identify the report.
Select a
Database
for the report.
You can base the report on
Summary Databases
or
Detailed Logs
databases.
To base the report on logs stored on the Panorama management server and Log Collectors, select
Panorama Data
(
recommended for faster performance
).
To base the reports on logs stored on the managed firewalls, select
Remote Device Data
. This option is for cases where the firewalls might have logs that were not yet forwarded to Panorama. However, because Panorama must query the firewalls directly, this option is slower.
Select
Scheduled
.
Define your log filtering criteria by selecting the
Time Frame
,
Sort By
order,
Group By
preference, and the columns (log attributes) that the report will display.
(
Optional
) Use the
Query Builder
to further refine the log filtering criteria based on log attributes.
To test the report settings, select
Run Now
. If necessary, modify the settings to change the information that the report displays.
Click
OK
to save the custom report.
PDF Summary Report
:
Select
Monitor
PDF Reports
Manage PDF Summary
and add the report.
Enter a
Name
to identify the report.
Use the drop-down for each report group and select one or more of the elements to design the PDF Summary Report. You can include up to 18 elements.
Click
OK
to save the settings.
Configure a
Report Group
.
It can include predefined reports, PDF Summary reports, and custom reports. Panorama compiles all the included reports into a single PDF.
Select
Monitor
PDF Reports
Report Groups
and
Add
a report group.
Enter a
Name
to identify the report group.
(
Optional
) Select
Title Page
and add a
Title
for the PDF output.
Select reports in the Predefined Report, Custom Report, and PDF Summary Report lists.
Add
the selected reports to the report group.
Click
OK
to save the settings.
Configure an Email server profile.
The profile defines how the firewall connects to the server and sends email.
Select
Panorama
Server Profiles
Email
and
Add
a server profile.
Enter a
Name
to identify the profile.
Add
up to four SMTP servers and
Add
the following information for each one:
Name
—A name to identify the SMTP server (1 to 31 characters). This field is just a label and doesn’t have to be the hostname of an existing server.
Email Display Name
—The name to display in the From field of the email.
From
—The email address where notification emails will be sent from.
To
—The email address to which notification emails will be sent.
Additional Recipient
—To send notifications to a second account, enter the additional address here.
Email Gateway
—The IP address or hostname of the SMTP gateway to use to send the emails.
Click
OK
to save the profile.
Schedule the report for email delivery.
Select
Monitor
PDF Reports
Email Scheduler
and
Add
an email scheduler profile.
Enter a
Name
to identify the profile.
Select the
Report Group
, the Email server profile you just created (
Email Profile
), and the
Recurrence
for the report (default is
Disable
).
Send test email
to verify that the email settings are accurate.
Click
OK
to save your changes.
Select
Commit
Commit to Panorama
and
Commit
your changes.