You're reading from Mastering Palo Alto Networks Deploy and manage industry-leading PAN-OS 10.x solutions to secure your users and infrastructure

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789956375

Length 514 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Palo Alto Networks

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Tom Piens Aka 'Reaper'

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: First Steps and Basic Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Core Technologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a New Device

4. Section 2: Advanced Configuration and Putting the Features to Work

5. Chapter 3: Building Strong Policies

6. Chapter 4: Taking Control of Sessions

7. Chapter 5: Services and Operational Modes

8. Chapter 6: Identifying Users and Controlling Access

9. Chapter 7: Managing Firewalls through Panorama

10. Section 3: Maintenance and Troubleshooting

11. Chapter 8: Upgrading Firewalls and Panorama

12. Chapter 9: Logging and Reporting

13. Chapter 10: VPN and Advanced Protection

14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting Common Session Issues

15. Chapter 12: A Deep Dive into Troubleshooting

16. Chapter 13: Supporting Tools

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Using the tools at our disposal

Knowing your way around the web interface is a great start if you need to troubleshoot an issue. There are plenty of spaces where valuable information is stored, and knowing just where to look can be the difference between quickly checking and fixing an issue versus spending hours trying to figure out why something isn't working.

As we saw in Chapter 9, Logging and Reporting, the Monitor tab is such a place where knowing where to look can make a difference. Logs are maintained for just about any event, from sessions passing through or being blocked by the firewall or a security profile to things happening on the firewall itself. In most cases, the log files will be the first place to look if something unexpected happened.

Log files

There are many different log databases that collect specific information. Knowing where to look is essential if you want to quickly find information relating to the issue you are investigating: