Palo Alto Networks: Maintenance Mode

To enter maintenance mode, you need to restart your system with request restart system in operational mode or look out for bootloader message that looks like below: Type maint after 5 seconds the grub bootloader will appear: Choose the first partition PANOS (maint, sda), you will enter the maintenance mode that looks like this: You … Continue reading Palo Alto Networks: Maintenance Mode →

Palo Alto Networks: Create users with different roles in CLI

Default user The default user for the new Palo Alto firewall is admin and password is admin. To check the available user use show mgt-config command. Types of privileges 1. Superuser, this is the root user of the firewall, you have full configuration access of the firewall which also includes the access to create user … Continue reading Palo Alto Networks: Create users with different roles in CLI →

Palo Alto Networks: Familiarize with PAN cli

The management interface settings are under the system hierarchy. Show system To find out which management services have been enabled: To show system information such as PANOS version, management IP address/netmask/gateway, device model, device serial number, mac address of the management interface, product family, hostname: You can filter the show system info output by using … Continue reading Palo Alto Networks: Familiarize with PAN cli →

Palo Alto Networks: Console terminal got overlapping output

When I first trying to test Palo Alto Networks firewall through its console interface I encountered an annoying problem, that is I got overlapping and confusing outputs when I issued commands. The default terminal type used by Palo Alto Networks Firewall is VT100, however most of the time we are using xterm. You can change … Continue reading Palo Alto Networks: Console terminal got overlapping output →