11-19-2018 07:23 AM
What is the difference between the control plane and management plane? Or are the the same thing?
11-20-2018 01:38 PM
they're different chipsets responsible for different things
management plane is purely magement things (run the web interface, do the lookups, get the updates, ...)
dataplane is the thing that controls how bits are received, inspected and forwarded
control plane is only used in the larger platforms, it helps the dataplane with more menial tasks so it can focus even more on raw processing, with things like routing
you can see what processes are running on each plane by checking the logs:
admin@PA-5220> less cp-log bcm.log brdagent.log brdagent.log.old cp-monitor.log cp-monitor.log.1 cp-monitor.log.2 cp-monitor.log.3 cp-monitor.log.4 cp-telemetry.log dataplane0-console-output.log ehmon.log ehmon.log.old fpp_1.log fpp_2.log fpp_3.log fpp_4.log fpp_5.log fpp_7.log fpp_cp.log masterd.log masterd_apps.log masterd_detail.log mprelay.log pan_comm_0.log supervisor.log sysdagent.log fpp_6.log admin@PA-5220> less dp0-log bfd.log brdagent.log dp-monitor.log dp-monitor.log.1 dp-monitor.log.2 dp-monitor.log.3 dp-monitor.log.4 dp-telemetry.log masterd.log masterd_apps.log mprelay.log pan_comm_0.log pan_comm_0.log.old pan_dha.log pan_task_1.log panio.log panio.log.old pdtrc.log supervisor.log sysdagent.log tund.log masterd_detail.log admin@PA-5220> less mp-log agent appweb3-panmodule.log appweb3-sslvpn.log appweb3-websrvr.log authd.log botnet.log chasd.log content_telemetry.log controlplane-console-output.log cord.log cryptod.log curlog_out_content dagger.log default-dpipkt.log devsrv.log devsrv.log.old dnsproxyd.log dsms-certificates.log ehmon.log fips.log fix_rpm_db.log get_content_issue_msg.log ha_agent.log ikemgr.log indexgen.log indexgen.log.1 indexgen.log.2 keymgr.log l2ctrld.log l3svc_ngx_error.log lcaas_agent.log logdb_dirs_gen.log logpurger.log logpurger.log.old logrcvr.log logrcvr.log.old masterd.log masterd_apps.log masterd_detail.log mgmt_fb.log mgmt_ngx_error.log mp-monitor.log mp-monitor.log.1 mp-monitor.log.2 mp-monitor.log.3 mp-monitor.log.4 mp-telemetry.log ms.log ms.log.old nf_conntrack.log opcmdhistory.log pan_dhcpd.log pan_mgmt_firstboot.log paninstaller_content.log panlogs-partition.log parrot.log pdtrc.log php.debug.log php.janitor.log pppoed.log raid.log rasmgr.log report_gen.log satd.log snmpd.log sslmgr.log sslvpn_ngx_error.log stats_service.log sysd.log sysdagent.log syslog-ng.log useridd.log varrcvr.log vif.log wf_ramdisk.log wildfire-upload.log routed.log
11-20-2018 01:38 PM
they're different chipsets responsible for different things
management plane is purely magement things (run the web interface, do the lookups, get the updates, ...)
dataplane is the thing that controls how bits are received, inspected and forwarded
control plane is only used in the larger platforms, it helps the dataplane with more menial tasks so it can focus even more on raw processing, with things like routing
you can see what processes are running on each plane by checking the logs:
admin@PA-5220> less cp-log bcm.log brdagent.log brdagent.log.old cp-monitor.log cp-monitor.log.1 cp-monitor.log.2 cp-monitor.log.3 cp-monitor.log.4 cp-telemetry.log dataplane0-console-output.log ehmon.log ehmon.log.old fpp_1.log fpp_2.log fpp_3.log fpp_4.log fpp_5.log fpp_7.log fpp_cp.log masterd.log masterd_apps.log masterd_detail.log mprelay.log pan_comm_0.log supervisor.log sysdagent.log fpp_6.log admin@PA-5220> less dp0-log bfd.log brdagent.log dp-monitor.log dp-monitor.log.1 dp-monitor.log.2 dp-monitor.log.3 dp-monitor.log.4 dp-telemetry.log masterd.log masterd_apps.log mprelay.log pan_comm_0.log pan_comm_0.log.old pan_dha.log pan_task_1.log panio.log panio.log.old pdtrc.log supervisor.log sysdagent.log tund.log masterd_detail.log admin@PA-5220> less mp-log agent appweb3-panmodule.log appweb3-sslvpn.log appweb3-websrvr.log authd.log botnet.log chasd.log content_telemetry.log controlplane-console-output.log cord.log cryptod.log curlog_out_content dagger.log default-dpipkt.log devsrv.log devsrv.log.old dnsproxyd.log dsms-certificates.log ehmon.log fips.log fix_rpm_db.log get_content_issue_msg.log ha_agent.log ikemgr.log indexgen.log indexgen.log.1 indexgen.log.2 keymgr.log l2ctrld.log l3svc_ngx_error.log lcaas_agent.log logdb_dirs_gen.log logpurger.log logpurger.log.old logrcvr.log logrcvr.log.old masterd.log masterd_apps.log masterd_detail.log mgmt_fb.log mgmt_ngx_error.log mp-monitor.log mp-monitor.log.1 mp-monitor.log.2 mp-monitor.log.3 mp-monitor.log.4 mp-telemetry.log ms.log ms.log.old nf_conntrack.log opcmdhistory.log pan_dhcpd.log pan_mgmt_firstboot.log paninstaller_content.log panlogs-partition.log parrot.log pdtrc.log php.debug.log php.janitor.log pppoed.log raid.log rasmgr.log report_gen.log satd.log snmpd.log sslmgr.log sslvpn_ngx_error.log stats_service.log sysd.log sysdagent.log syslog-ng.log useridd.log varrcvr.log vif.log wf_ramdisk.log wildfire-upload.log routed.log
11-26-2018 02:20 PM
yes ma'am
only available on the platforms that have one (most don't)
12-25-2022 01:04 PM
@reaper very good explanation.!
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