Prerequisites for Strata Cloud Manager Onboarding
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Prerequisites for Strata Cloud Manager Onboarding

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Prerequisites for Strata Cloud Manager Onboarding

Learn about the prerequisites for Strata Cloud Manager onboarding.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
  • VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
  • Strata Cloud Manager Essentials or Strata Cloud Manager Pro
  • Strata Logging Service license
Manage your Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation firewalls from Strata Cloud Manager. Cloud Management of NGFW is a cloud-delivered and AI-powered security solution to manage Palo Alto Networks' advanced ML-powered firewalls alongside your Prisma Access deployments.
Cloud Management of NGFWs is done from a single streamlined user interface and leverages Palo Alto Networks best-in-class cloud-delivered security services. To manage your Next-Gen firewalls from Strata Cloud Manager, you must enable AIOps for NGFW Premium which also draws on PAN-OS device telemetry data to give you an overview of the health and security of your cloud managed NGFWs. For logging, Strata Logging Service provides a secure, resilient, and fault tolerant centralized log storage and aggregation.
The Strata Cloud Manager Command Center is your new homepage in Strata Cloud Manager. The Strata Command Center provides a consolidated view of the Palo Alto Networks Network security platform and highlights areas where you can take direct actions to improve the health of your network. All the open threats, risks, and incidents impacting your network are all in one place. Strata Cloud Manager surfaces immediate actions you can take to improve security.