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What is Expedition?

alestevez — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:02:53 GMT

What is Expedition?

Expedition is the fourth evolution of the Palo Alto Networks Migration Tool. The main purpose of this tool was help reducing the time and efforts to migrate a configuration from one of the supported vendors to Palo Alto Networks.

By using the Migration Tool, everyone can convert a configuration from Checkpoint or Cisco or any other vendor to a PAN-OS and give you more time to improve the results. Migration Tool 3 added some functionalities to allow our customers to enforce security policies based on App-ID and User-ID as well.

With Expedition, we have gone one step further, not only because we want to continue helping to facilitate the transition of a security policy from others vendors to PAN-OS, but we want to ensure the outcome is the best as possible. This is why we added a Machine Learning module that can help you generate new security policies based on real log traffic and the introduction of the Best Practices Assessment Tool to check the configuration complies with the Best Practices recommended by our security experts.

With all these huge improvements we expect the next time you use Expedition the journey to the excellence will be easier.

NOTE: Expedition is supported by the community as best effort

The Palo Alto Networks TAC does not provide support, so please post your questions in the community.

Go to: Expedition landing page on LIVEcommunity

Re: What is Expedition?

rschunk — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 00:23:00 GMT

Does anyone know the minimum VMware Workstation version required to import the Expedition VM? I have 10.0.7.build-2844087 and Expedition fails to start as Workstaion does not recognize the VM type.

Thank you, Rich

Re: What is Expedition?

alestevez — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:07:39 GMT

Current version is using hardware version 12. But you can modify it to reduce it. It should work.

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rschunk — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:32:47 GMT

Do you know what I would modify to ge tthis to work?

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JayakumarParthasarathy — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 06:10:11 GMT

Can we convert from PIX to 8.0?

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alestevez — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 07:38:17 GMT

@JayakumarParthasarathy Yes !!

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JaimeCastelan — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:15:36 GMT

Can the tool be used for CiscoFirePOwer? or just ASA?

Thanks

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bagherib — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:33:14 GMT

Just ASA for now. I guess the assumption is that FP is new and cusotmers aren't leaving it yet. YET.

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alestevez — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:59:16 GMT

If the Firepower config has the access-lists like this will work

access-list myaccesslist advaced xxxx x xx x x x

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Retired Member — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:45:35 GMT

Has anyone been able to get this working with Virtualbox without first using VMWare Workstation or ESXi? I know the "VBoxManage clondhd" command lets you convert VMDK to a VDI file but I'm not sure if that'll work with an export with multiple vmdk files.

Re: What is Expedition?

Retired Member — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:52:37 GMT

The OVA can be found here: https://paloaltonetworks.box.com/s/davuvo65k727nm7feuug0d783zo6fjx8

Re: What is Expedition?

JackSenesap — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:24:41 GMT

Can Expedition help migrate rules from your Palo Alto firewalls to Panorama?

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dgildelaig — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:07:05 GMT

Panorama can already adopt the configuration that a FW has. There is not need to involve Expedition in this process

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Chris_Goddard — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:18:40 GMT

Wasn't sure if it was posted previously....has anyone successfully installed on RHEL or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

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palanisamy — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:12:34 GMT

Can we migrate from Barracuda Next Gen to Palo alto?

Any one please share me guide for the migration tool?

Re: What is Expedition?

lychiang — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:33:45 GMT

Hi @palanisamy Barracuda is not supported at this point. Please see below the supported vendors matrix :

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/expedition-articles/expedition-supported-3rd-party-vendor-matrix/ta-p/336922

Re: What is Expedition?

skhirbash — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:39:57 GMT

Hello-

I reviewed this link below in which it discusses installing Expedition on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Is Ubuntu required to run Expedition now or can it be installed as a ova on a Win hypervisor?

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/expedition-articles/new-expedition-installation-procedure/ta-p/275276

Thanks in advance.

~sK

Re: What is Expedition?

lychiang — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:53:27 GMT

Hello @skhirbash

Yes, Ubuntu 16.04 is required , please review the installation video via the below link:

https://youtu.be/II_6dgnPn0U

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skhirbash — Wed, 19 May 2021 17:34:33 GMT

@lychiang .. Thank you!

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kwrite17 — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 14:23:35 GMT

Can the tool be used to move from SonicWall to paloalto?

Thanks