Configuration Wizard Release Notes Version 1.1.1

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• About Configuration Wizard
• Configuration Wizard Highlights
• Configuration Wizard Customer Benefits
• Additional Best Practices Checks added to Configuration Wizard
• See the new features introduced in this release
• Review the latest Known Issues
• Review the Addressed Issues for the latest release
• Getting Help
• Related Documentation
• Requesting Support

About Configuration Wizard

The Palo Alto NetworksⓇ Configuration Wizard guides customers step-by-step by providing an intuitive, easy-to-use interface to configure firewalls that aligns with best practices. Configuration Wizard provides customized recommendations to remediate BPA-found issues and improve overall feature adoption and improve security posture.

Customers now get clear insights or direction on how to take action on failed BPA checks and improve security posture after running a BPA report.

Configuration Wizard Highlights

• Integrates with BPA tool to quickly deploy remediation from failed best practices on NGFW or Panorama™ capabilities
• Identifies top 13 most important BPA checks for remediations to confirm the best practice settings being modified.
• Provide step-by-step configuration guide using the Configuration Wizard to quickly configure PAN-OS features
• The Configuration Wizard provides a list of Set Commands for quick and easy configuration changes

Configuration Wizard Customer Benefits

• Save time and automatically remediate to security best practices. 
• Lower risk and reduce configuration errors 
• Quickly deploy across you entire network security infrastructure
• Maximize your return on your security investment

Additional Best Practices Checks added to Configuration Wizard

Best Practice Checks That Can Be Remediate with Configuration Wizard
Category	BPA Checks
Objects	Antivirus Profile Decoder Wildfire Actions URL Filtering Profile Allow Categories
Device	TCP out-of-order traffic Failed Attempts Lockout Time Rematch Sessions

See the new features introduced in this release

• In addition to Best Practice recommended commands Configuration Wizard will now provide a command to take backup of an existing configuration before running recommended configuration.
• Added option to download all best practice recommended commands instead of copying at the “Generate Commands”.

Review the latest Known Issues 

The following list includes only outstanding known issues specific to Configuration Wizard.

Severity	Description
S2 - Major	Action on DNS Queries for DNS Sinkhole is not set to “sinkhole” still passes
S4 - Trivial	Capitalize "DNS" in "DNS Signatures" and "Dns Sinkhole Settings"

 

Review the Addressed Issues for the latest release

The following list includes known issues specific to Configuration Wizard that were fixed in this release.

Severity	Description
Medium	Warning to be displayed  when copying more than 20 lines of CLI commands for PAN-OS
Medium	Tool creates multiple log forwarding profiles when they already exist.
Medium	Resume Configuration Wizard is not going to last active page
High	Antivirus Profile Decoder Actions feature will now only display the options available for the running version PANOS the user is using
Medium	Character length limitation blocking user access

Getting Help

The following topics provide information on where to find more about this release and how to request support.

 

Related Documentation

Configuration Wizard Blog Post

Introduction to Configuration Wizard

Configuration Wizard Demo Video

 

Requesting Support

To provide feedback, write to us at: bpaplus@paloaltonetworks.com

For contacting support, for information on support programs, to manage your account or devices, or to open a support case, go to https://support.paloaltonetworks.com