Panorama SD-WAN Zone Mapping? No longer needed or no longer available?

VRT-JH — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:52:28 GMT

I know this has been posted in the past, but I want to check if there are some new answers before reaching out to our SE. There is a "known issue" where the zone mapping tab was removed from Panorama. The current documentation still mentions the need to map the pre-defined zones to existing zones when adding the device to SD-WAN or via CSV. The known issue states:

PLUG-13152

The SD-WAN plugin creates predefined zones automatically that does not require any user configuration. Hence, we have removed the following predefined zones tabs from the SD-WAN plugin web interface:

* Zone Internet
* Zone to Hub
* Zone to Branch
* Zone Internal

This issue is addressed in SD-WAN plugin 2.2.5 and 3.0.5

The documentation states, "If you have pre-existing zones for your Palo Alto Networks^® firewalls, you will be mapping them to the predefined zones used in SD-WAN." and later goes into detail on how to map the zones.

I imagine you then have to replace your existing zones with the pre-defined ones, no? Either that or create rules that allow communication between your existing zones and the pre-defined zones. The "does not require any user configuration" bit makes it sound like it "just works" but that does not seem to be the case.

What is the appropriate solution? Do we need to rename all of the relevant zones?

Relevant Versions:

Panorama: 11.2.4-h1

SD-WAN Plugin: sd_wan-3.3.3

Firewalls: 11.1.2-h3 (mostly)

Re: Panorama SD-WAN Zone Mapping? No longer needed or no longer available?

VRT-JH — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:34:08 GMT

I ended up finding out that plugin versions >2.2.4 or >3.0.4 force you to use the pre-defined zones. To make this work, I created policies such as "trust to zone-internal", "zone-internal to trust", "zone-to-branch to trust" and "trust to zone-to-branch". The alternative would be to replace your VPN/trust zones with the pre-defined ones, like changing your "trust" zone to "zone-internal", for example. Kind of annoying, but is what it is.

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