Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of Palo Alto firewalls and the Palo Alto Base Pack PowerPack:

What is Palo Alto?

Palo Alto Networks is a provider of enterprise network security solutions. Their products include physical and virtual firewalls, the WildFire cloud-based service, and the Panorama network security management platform.

What Does the Palo Alto Base Pack PowerPack Monitor?

The Palo Alto Base Pack PowerPack includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications to collect configuration and performance data about Palo Alto firewalls

  • Device Classes for each of the Palo Alto devices monitored
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Palo Alto devices meet certain status criteria

Installing the Palo Alto Base Pack PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the Palo Alto Base Pack PowerPack.

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.