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'Iron Skillet' templates are initial configuration templates (importable configuration files) based on our own Best Practices documentation designed to get our customers up and running in no time while already taking full advantage of important features in their products.

In this Wall's Week, read about the Streamcast event, our virtual firewall vs. public cloud security, our cybersecurity canon, new migration tools and much more. You can also find useful links and some important Tech Tips for MineMeld and Xbash.

If you are wondering how to better utilize Panorama to manage a great number of firewalls, then you need to read about Panorama Interconnect.

If your firewall or Panorama are still on a PAN-OS that has been identified as End of Life, you need to consider upgrading as soon as possible.

Last part of our New Cloud service offerings discusses Panorama in AWS. Click to read more and watch the video.

This log displays an entry for each configuration change and is a goldmine of information.  Can't find it? Check out, in this article, why this might be the case.

More posted questions and answers from the booth @Ignite! Topics include Aperture, API, best practices, GlobalProtect, LightCyber, log forwarding, firewall management, MineMeld, Panorama, Traps, User-ID, VPN, and WildFire. Got questions? #GetAnswers here.

Part 2 of the questions from the #GetAnswers wall at Ignite: Wildcard search in Traffic Monitor. Pre or post policy with Panorama? Base version when upgrading the firewall, and syncing downloads across an HA pair. App-ID or service/standard ports with traffic? Best method to intro span VLANs. 

Lots of discussions on the Live Community ask about the new Panorama 8.0 and the logs and log collector upgrades needed after upgrading. There is some confusion about the upgrades. I answer these questions in this blog.

Just in case you have not seen the "Customer Notice" at the top of the screen, I wanted to bring your attention to the fact that the certificate Panorama uses to communicate to PAN-OS devices is going to expire!

Your device can only store so many logs. Where did my older logs go ? Why am I only seeing 2 days of logs ? Are my older logs gone? 

Log Retention

Have you ever wanted to spruce up your Security Policy Rulebase with color? Starting with PAN-OS 6.0, a new feature to Color Code Tags has been introduced.This new feature really can liven up your Rulebase, making it much easier to read and verify your rules.Here is an example of a Rulebase with no ...