Activate Strata Cloud Manager Essentials

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Activate Your Strata Cloud Manager Licenses

Activate Strata Cloud Manager Essentials

Learn about how to activate Strata Cloud Manager Essentials that offers configuration and network security lifecycle management features.

Where Can I Use This?	What Do I Need?
NGFW, including those funded by Software NGFW Credits Prisma Access	Strata Cloud Manager Essentials If you began using Strata Cloud Manager before these licensing tiers were introduced, your licenses remain supported.

Strata Cloud Manager Essentials is the free tier that offers configuration and network security lifecycle management features to streamline operations and provide essential security. For details about device models support, see Device Model Compatibility.

You can activate VM-Series funded by software NGFW credits using the Strata Cloud Manager Essentials license tier. If you don’t select a cloud subscription in the deployment profile, Strata Cloud Manager Essentials activates automatically.

Log in to hub.
Find the Strata Cloud Manager app tile and Activate.
Select the Customer Support Account.
Create New tenant where you will activate Strata Cloud Manager.
Select a Region where you want to deploy Strata Cloud Manager. See the supported regions for Strata Cloud Manager.

Region support varies based on whether you want to manage NGFWs, Prisma Access, or both simultaneously. To manage both, you must select a region that supports both NGFWs and Prisma Access.
Select Cloud Identity Engine or create a new CIE instance to identify and verify all users across your infrastructure. You can also skip it by selecting None.
Agree to the Terms and Conditions, and Activate.
Wait for Strata Cloud Manager to initialize and for Status to show Complete.

If you have created a new Cloud Identity Engine instance, wait for it's Status to show Complete.
Associate NGFWs, Panorama, or both to a tenant containing your Strata Cloud Manager.

Make sure to individually associate all the firewalls managed by Panorama to the tenant.
1. Navigate to Common Services > Device Associations.
2. Add Devices.
3. Select one or more firewalls or Panorama appliances and Save.
If you have Strata Logging Service, you can associate it with devices. Otherwise, you can skip it.
After activating Strata Cloud Manager Essentials, you can specify the firewalls or Panorama appliances that you want to use with Strata Logging Service.
1. Select Common Services > Device Associations.
2. Associate Products.
3. In the Products selection column, select Strata Logging Service.
4. Select devices and Save.
Enable telemetry on devices. Strata Cloud Manager assesses the health of the devices in your deployment by analyzing telemetry data that your PAN-OS devices send to Strata Logging Service. To send this data, you must have enabled device telemetry on your devices.

Beginning with PAN-OS 12.1.2, 11.1.11, 11.2.8, 10.2.17, and later releases, the telemetry auto-enablement feature configures telemetry to be enabled by default on your devices. Upon onboarding a new device (Panorama or firewall), telemetry is automatically enabled with settings centrally controlled through Strata Cloud Manager or Hub.
Log in to Strata Cloud Manager by clicking on its icon in the hub.