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

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Preparing for the upgrade

Before we get started on the upgrade process, there are a few precautions we should take to ensure we are properly prepared and have everything set so that the upgrade process itself goes smoothly:

Go to Device | Setup | Operations for the firewall or Panorama | Setup | Operations for Panorama, then click Save named configuration snapshot and name the configuration file for the device name, date, and time (for example, HQmember1-04052020-1005.xml).
Next, click on Export named configuration snapshot and save the file somewhere where you can find it if you need it.
You can also export running-config.xml so that you have the latest committed configuration, but remember to rename the file after downloading it.
If you have Panorama, you should already have the scheduled backup configured under Panorama | Scheduled Backup, but it doesn't hurt to have a fresh backup just in case.
Go to Device | Dynamic Updates, click on Check Now, and...