NGFW PA-1400 POC Guide

[nuranisnadiah]

Hi,

I am beginner for firewall configuration and will need to lead POC soon. Appreciate if you guys can share the guide, step-by-step for firewall configuration for POC purpose. The client wish to test on bundle license ATP, ADVURL, AWF and DNS and SD-WAN. 

Thank you in advance!

[BPry]

@nuranisnadiah,

Since your mentioning client and POC, I'd just suggest that you shouldn't be leading a POC until you have sufficient experience with configuring PAN firewalls if at all possible. I'm not trying to be mean, but proper POCs need to be tailored to the client and what they're looking to validate. That requires listening to their needs and know what corresponding features need to be configured and being able to effectively tune to best practices so they have an accurate representation of what the equipment has to offer. Leading a proper POC when you yourself don't have experience with the equipment is just kind of setting yourself up for failure and can cause the client to have a subpar evaluation.

PAN offers POC evaluations themselves and will offer the requisite support in configuring the hardware to your evaluation requirements. I'd recommend having them fill out https://start.paloaltonetworks.com/next-generation-firewall-proof-of-concept-evaluation and getting a PAN supported POC setup. They'll walk you through getting things setup to run this properly.

[nuranisnadiah]

Hi @BPry , 

Appreciate the advise and I understand the subpar evaluation that might happen due to my insufficient experience. Owing to this reason, me and my team actually are having preparation with practice and self learning first before we go to customer site for real POC, since at the end of the day, we are required to understand the configuration stuff. 

Just wondering if anyone can help on the guide for POC testing. Thanks

[BarbarThomas]

Any update?