New Features in April 2025
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New Features in April 2025

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New Features in April 2025

Here are the new features available in Strata Cloud Manager in April 2025.

Strata Cloud Manager: NGFW Alerts in April

April 24, 2025
Here are the NGFW alerts introduced in April 2025:
  • NGFW Sent BGP Routes Beyond the Capacity of Its Peer
  • IKEv1 IPsec Tunnel Down - Peer Identification Mismatch
  • Potential Traffic Loss - Packet Buffer Exhaustion
  • PA-400 PAN-OS Version at Risk of Boot/Reboot Issues
  • Dataplane Process all_pktproc Crash - Invalid URL Cache Category Length
  • Mismatch Between Traffic Logs and Session Details for Usernames
  • gRPC Connection Failure to User-ID Edge Service
  • User Group Usage in Policies exceeding the supported limit
  • Mismatch of Server Group Mapping Users and Groups between LDAP and PAN-OS Device
  • NGFW Not Forwarding Logs - Missing Collector Preference List
Health alerts actively monitor the health and performance of your platform in real time. This approach helps in identifying issues, predicting potential problems, and implementing remediation actions to ensure your devices function optimally. Here are some key aspects:
  • Monitoring Metrics: Continuously monitor various metrics from the NGFWs, including CPU utilization, memory usage, disk space, network throughput, and other relevant performance indicators.
  • Anomaly Detection: Generate alerts that dynamically adjust based on the metric's historical value and your usage trends.
  • Predictive Analysis: Leverage historical data and patterns to predict when thresholds might be exceeded or specific events may occur. This helps forecast potential issues before they escalate.

Extended Availability of Strata Copilot in Strata Cloud Manager

April 11, 2025
Supported on Strata Cloud Manager
You can now access Strata Copilot functionality across key Settings pages in Strata Cloud Manager, enhancing your workflow and platform experience. The Copilot icon is now available from the Subscriptions, Tenants, Device Associations, and Identity & Access pages, providing instant access to relevant technical documentation.

Strata Copilot: New Region Support

April 25, 2025
Supported on Strata Cloud Manager
Strata Copilot now extends its reach to new regions, enhancing global accessibility. This expansion brings the powerful AI-driven assistance to users in Canada, France, Israel, India, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia. By increasing geographical coverage, Strata Copilot offers more organizations the opportunity to streamline their security operations, leverage intelligent insights, and improve overall efficiency in managing their Palo Alto Networks solutions in Strata Cloud Manager across these diverse locations.

ADEM for NGFW

April 10, 2025
Supported for:NGFW (Managed by Strata Cloud Manager)
Requirements:
  • Strata Cloud Manager Pro for NGFW license
  • a firewall running PAN-OS
    • 11.1.9 or a later 11.1 version
    • 11.2.6 or a later 11.2 version
  • For remote sites: a PAN-OS SD-WAN subscription
  • For mobile users: a GlobalProtect license
Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) now extends its end-to-end application experience and performance monitoring capabilities beyond the SASE platform to next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) for a more comprehensive view into your users’ digital experience.
Now, if you have users connecting to an NGFW with a GlobalProtect Gateway installed, you can run synthetic tests from the user's endpoint to the application to gain visibility into their application experience. User experience to applications with hop by hop views and segment wise health is visible, allowing you to identify issues and better target your remediation efforts.
Similarly, if you have an NGFW configured as a branch site using SD-WAN, you can now monitor synthetic tests from the NGFW branch site to the application and take action upon any signs of application experience degradation.
If you have both Strata Cloud Manager Pro for Prisma Access and for NGFW, ADEM can detect and report when a user is connecting to Prisma Access or to an NGFW at a given point in time so that you can easily pinpoint where an experience issue may be occurring.
To get started monitoring mobile user and remote site experience for NGFWs, associate your NGFW with the same tenant as ADEM and begin viewing experience data for your NGFWs in Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama.

IP Pool Allocation Enhancements

April 4, 2025
Supported on Strata Cloud Manager
Prisma Access initially allowed only three main theaters (Americas, EMEA, APAC) for IP pool allocation. In this release, we now allow users to view IP pool utilization per pool locations and subpool regions.