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Introducing Expedition 2 Beta [Program Concluded]

lychiang — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:31:12 GMT

End of Life Announcement for Palo Alto Networks Expedition

We are excited to share some great news with you, as a valued user of Expedition functionalities. We are currently in the process of transferring the core functionalities of the tool into new products. This strategic move aligns with our commitment to meet the evolving needs of our customers and enhance our range of product offerings.

Starting from January 2025, Palo Alto Networks will no longer support the Expedition tool, including all versions of both Expedition1 and Expedition2 branches.

We believe this transition will bring even more value and improved capabilities to our users. For more details, please refer to Live Community site.

Dear valued customers,

We are excited to introduce the beta release of Expedition 2, a cutting-edge tool designed to facilitate firewall migration from various vendors and manage Palo Alto Networks firewalls/Panoramas configuration via API. Developed with a focus on automation, rich capabilities, and streamlined network management tasks, Expedition 2 aims to significantly enhance your network administration experience.

Expedition 2 offers numerous benefits, including automating firewall migration, simplifying security policy management, and enabling bulk operations across multiple devices.

While we are confident in Expedition 2's robust features and its ability to make network management more efficient, we acknowledge that this is a beta release. As such, there may be bugs and issues we need to resolve before the official launch. We encourage you to test the beta version of Expedition 2 and share your valuable feedback, which will help us improve the tool before its GA launch.

Please note that access to the beta version is restricted, and we kindly request you to fill out the online form available at the link below to receive access to the beta files:

Note: Updating google form link

https://forms.gle/wHukcW8QAvXXyxgXA

The form will request some information from you, which will help us understand your requirements and expectations better. Once we receive your response, we will provide you with the necessary access to the beta files.

We believe that your feedback will help us improve our product and make it more user-friendly. We encourage you to test the beta version thoroughly and provide us with your honest feedback.

If you encounter any issues or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at fwmigrate@paloaltonetworks.com.

** UPDATE: 9th December 2024 **

PANser container tool support for Sonicwall migrations has been discontinued.

We appreciate your time and consideration and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Expedition Team

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

mjj1587 — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:32:53 GMT

I have attempted to install this. Unfortunately I am running into an issue where expedition-db container and expedition-parsers-db container keep restarting in a loop. It is complaining saying "You need to specify one of MARIA_DB_ROOT_PASSWORD, MARIA_DB_ROOT_PASSWORD_HASH, MARIA_DB_ALLOW_EMPTY_ROOT_PASSWORD and MARIADB_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD"

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

lychiang — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:37:23 GMT

Hi @mjj1587, have you modify the .env file before you run any command , you need to give a password to the mysql database variable , it's in the quick start up guide also in the Expedition 2 getting started guide.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

mjj1587 — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:38:47 GMT

Yes, I did set the password to paloalto for the mysql database variable per the guide.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

mjj1587 — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:52:20 GMT

It almost seems like the .env file is not being read when I run "docker-compose up -d" because it gives me several warnings that the MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD is not set along with several other environment variables. But they are 100% set in the env file.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

lychiang — Wed, 31 May 2023 21:17:51 GMT

Ok, I know the problem, your .env file has been changed to env file, you can open up the env file in vscode and save it to .env , and it will ask you do you want to save the file to hidden system file, and just say yes. then re-run the docker-compose up -d again

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

mjj1587 — Wed, 31 May 2023 21:22:22 GMT

Ahh thank you! This solved the problem!

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

sdogan — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:28:42 GMT

Hi Team,

Have beta install files been released?

Regards,

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

lychiang — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:41:03 GMT

Hi @sdogan Yes, once you filled out the google form in the article, you should received access to the beta software , if you did not , please write email to fwmigrate@paloaltonetworks.com

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

Apadilla — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:26:35 GMT

Hi,

I'm running the beta, what is the process to report issues ?

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

lychiang — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:28:20 GMT

Hi @Apadilla Thank you for being part of the beta test program, please report issues to fwmigrate@paloaltonetworks.com Thank you!

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

Apadilla — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 23:30:21 GMT

Thanks !!!

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

Naser87 — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 10:04:42 GMT

fantastic tool, enjoyed using it, however I noticed that I could only view a maximum of 15 entries in the interface or Zone pages, even though alot more exist within the configuration file itself, ( 15 entries and 1 of 1 pages ).

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

dpuigdomenec — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 09:33:37 GMT

Thanks for feedback @Naser87

Please could you send us an email to fwmigrate@paloaltonetworks.com with an screenshot of your view? Also witch type of interfaces does your configuration have?

Many thanks for participating in the beta program.

Best regards,

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

Naser87 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:08:31 GMT

@dpuigdomenec Hello and thank you for your comment, I have sent the details to the specified Email, again thank you for all your immense efforts and cutting-edge innovations, they are much appreciated.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

lychiang — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:30:11 GMT

@BartChamness New guide called "Expedition 2.x Getting Started" is in the google drive we shared with you.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

BartChamness — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:30:50 GMT

Perfect, thank you 🙂

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

Torrealba — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:16:39 GMT

Can't find any more information. I got this installed up and running but for some reason it doesn't load the NGFW XML config. not even the sample pa220 that comes with the scripts. There was one attempt that loaded but doesn't show any objects not networks, nada.

Anyone else running into this? I sent feedback to fwmigrate@paloaltonetworks.com.

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

dpuigdomenec — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:19:54 GMT

Hi @Torrealba

Thanks for reaching out.

We will follow-up your case by email.

Best,

David

Re: Introducing Expedition 2 Beta

S.Cantwell — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:58:20 GMT

I would like to agree that I am struggling (like @Torrealba ) with getting the load config with any imported. panw.xml file... I see something happen, but then not clickable, nothing updates/move, and I cannot understand the migration flow.

Instead of email, I would like to have a zoom meeting scheduled, so that the team is see/experience what we are doing.
Is this ever a possibility?

Thanks.