Strata Cloud Manager
Get Upgrade Recommendations
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Get Upgrade Recommendations
Strata Cloud Manager helps you to plan the upgrade of your devices by analyzing
them and creating upgrade recommendations.
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Select to use Strata Cloud Manager to analyze the features that are enabled on
your firewalls and create a customized recommendation that provides specific information
for your network:
- The best software version to run on your devices.
- Information about new features, changes to behavior, vulnerabilities, and software issues in each recommended software version.
Types of upgrade recommendations:
- System-generated recommendations that are generated from device telemetry data twice each week.
- User-generated custom recommendations that are generated when you select devices for specific PAN-OS CVEs.
- User-generated recommendations that you generate by uploading a tech support file (TSF) of a firewall.
You can perform the following tasks for every recommendation.
- View the number of devices that require an upgrade and any vulnerabilities that you need to address.
- Edit the name of a recommendation to differentiate between custom recommendations.
- Filter the recommendations by Creation Date, Recommendations Name, and Recommendations Generated By.
- Delete recommendations that failed or are no longer appropriate.
Generate On-Demand Upgrade Recommendations
- Generate On Demand Upgrade Recommendations.
- Select a tech support file (TSF) and Upload it.
- You can upload a TSF of only one device at a time and the TSF must be in the .tgz format.
- You can generate a software upgrade recommendations only from a TSF that you generate for and upload from a firewall running the PAN-OS 9.1 or a later PAN-OS version.
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- View the software upgrade recommendations after the status is Ready.You can also check Status to see if there are any errors related to the upload, file format, or processing of the TSF.
View Software Upgrade Recommendations Report
Click a recommendation to view the detailed report with the upgrade options for your
devices. Select an upgrade option to view details about New
Features, Changes of Behavior,
Vulnerabilities Based on Enabled Features, and
PAN-OS Known Issues. You can also
Export this report in a CSV format.
- The recommendation report includes information specific to the enabled features on your devices.
- For PAN-OS Known Issues, the Associated Case Count represents the number of customers who reported the issue.
