Prisma Access
How to Manage Prisma Access
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How to Manage Prisma Access
There are two ways to manage Prisma Access; use Panorama to manage Prisma Access or,
for cloud management, use Strata Cloud Manager.
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There are two ways you can manage Prisma Access, but you can't switch between the
management interfaces after you activate your Prisma Access license (with the
exception of using the migration workflow to go from
a Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama) to a Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager) deployment). So, you must decide how
you want to manage Prisma Access before you get started:
- Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)To manage Prisma Access from the cloud, use Strata Cloud Manager. With cloud management, you can quickly onboard branches and mobile users through task-driven workflows that allow you to set up and test your environment in minutes. Cloud management with Strata Cloud Manager simplifies the onboarding process by providing predefined internet access and decryption policy rules based on best practices. Quickly set up IPSec tunnels using defaults suitable for the most common IPSec-capable devices and turn on SSL decryption for recommended URL categories.Strata Cloud Manager Command CenterThe Strata Cloud Manager Command Center page appears when you launch your Strata Cloud Manager. This command center helps you in assessing the health of your network, better visibility, and an overview of your data. The command center has different dashboards to view different types of reports.
- Summary: In the summary dashboard, you can view
the different types of data sources, platform infrastructure, like NGFW
or Prisma Access, through which the data flows from various data sources
to different applications in your network.
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- Threats: In your threats dashboard, you can view
the threats detected by your security applications. You can use this
dashboard to monitor the blocked and allowed threats on your network or
investigate areas of your network that might have a low percentage of
inspected traffic.
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- Operational Health: Shows the health and user
experience on your network as it is monitored by ADEM. You can use this
view to monitor the user experience on your network and review the
severity of open incidents.
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- Data Security: Shows the traffic within your
network that has been flagged as having sensitive data by DLP and SaaS
security subscriptions. You can use this view to monitor the data
flowing through your firewalls and connected SaaS applications and the
severity of any data risks on your network.
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Click any of these categories in your dashboards to filter results accordingly. - Summary: In the summary dashboard, you can view
the different types of data sources, platform infrastructure, like NGFW
or Prisma Access, through which the data flows from various data sources
to different applications in your network.
- Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama)Use the Cloud Services plugin on Panorama to set up and manage Prisma Access. This is a good option if you're already using Panorama to manage next-generation firewalls and you have a common policy that you want to use for access to your corporate applications.Even if you're using Panorama to manage Prisma Access, you can still use Strata Cloud Manager for many Prisma Access visibility and monitoring features. Learn more.
After you decide which management option you want to use, get started by following
the licensing and activation workflow for you option you have selected:
- To get started with Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama), perform license activation from the customer support portal (CSP) and install the Cloud Services plugin on Panorama.
- To get started with Cloud Managed Prisma Access, perform license activation from the hub.
Feature Parity Between Panorama and Cloud
Management
There are some differences between what is supported on Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama)
Access and Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager). For a list of feature support in
Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama) and Prisma Access (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager), refer to the
compatibility matrix.