What is a Palo Alto Firewall?
Palo Alto Networks is a well-known provider of next-generation firewalls, and their flagship firewall product is the Palo Alto Firewall. The firewall solution has been designed to offer a multi-layered security framework that includes network firewalling, intrusion prevention (IPS), URL filtering, and advanced threat protection.
Furthermore, it leverages machine learning and AI technologies to provide proactive threat detection and prevention. Palo Alto Firewalls are renowned for their advanced security features such as application aware control capabilities or signature-based and behavioral-based network intrusion prevention. They also provide User Identity-based Policies, automatically threat intelligence updates and SSL Decryption.
How to monitor Palo Alto Firewalls?
ServicePilot makes it very easy to monitor a Palo Alto Firewall. Simply configure the SNMP interface of the Palo Alto Firewall device. Then use the ServicePilot web interface to add a resource from the ServicePilot security-palo-alto-firewall package.
The monitoring statistics gathered in this way include:
- Network: Ping Response Time and Interfaces activity
- System: CPU, Memory, HA state
- Sessions statistics
- Virtual System and Tunnels statistics
- TCP, Drops and DOS statistics
How to install a palo-alto-firewall resource?
- Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
- Add a new palo-alto-firewall resource via the web interface (
/prmviews
or/prmresources
) or via API (/prmpackages
page), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.
Details of the palo-alto-firewall package are located in the
/prmpackages
page of the software.
Benefits
ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.
By correlating the technology PALO ALTO FIREWALL with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.
This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.
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