→ The features and capabilities available to you in Strata Cloud Manager depend on which license(s) you are
using.
Here's a first look at Strata Cloud Manager. The Strata Cloud Manager user interface provides a comprehensive view of your network,
and gives you with a unified workflow to manage NGFWs and SASE. Move through the new
simplified and consistent navigation to interact with all your network data, get
actionable insights that are surfaced for you automatically, and collectively manage
and monitor Prisma Access, your NGFWs, and your cloud-delivered security
services.
Explore each menu on the left navigation bar – these paths are now standard across
any Palo Alto Networks products or subscriptions you're using with Strata Cloud Manager. This makes it easy to:
adopt new features and subscriptions
onboarding new users, devices, sites, or locations
as they will slot right into your existing management setup.
Important
The features available to you
in Strata Cloud Manager depend on your subscriptions. You can review the
Strata Cloud Manager docs to see any license requirements for Strata Cloud Manager features.
Command Center
Your First Stop to Assess the Health, Security, and Efficiency
of Your Network
The Command Center is a visualized overview of your
network and security infrastructure. It provides you with four
different views, each with its own tracked data, metrics, and
actionable insights to examine and interact with.
Activity Insights gives you an in-depth view of your network
activities across Prisma Access and NGFW deployments. Activity
Insights unifies your network data such as network traffic,
application usage, threats, and user activities in one
place.
Dashboards surface what’s most important for you to
know, right when you log in. Each dashboard is designed to
highlight areas where you can take action to improve your
security posture or network health.
Explore all the predefined, interactive dashboards
provided, and you can pin your favorites.
Strata Cloud Manager provides a unified incidents
and alerts framework. In one place, view, investigate, and
address the alerts and incidents on your network, and jump to
your logs to examine the associated activity.
Monitor the health and security of everything on your
network, and use the IoC Search to investigate the history
of an artifact on your network and review global analysis
findings. Depending on the subscriptions and products you're
using, you can monitor:
NGFW Devices
Prisma Access
Applications
Users
Branch Sites
Data Centers
Network Services (like GlobalProtect and DNS)
Your Palo Alto Networks subscriptions
Your Prisma Access locations
Prisma SD-WAN
Assets
Manage
Centralized Configuration
Manage a shared policy across your network security
products and subscriptions; on day one, you can start off with a
secure configuration based on predefined best practice policies
and settings, and inline best practice checks.
When you first navigate to your workflows, the
Discovery dashboard surfaces critical and recommended
actions you can take to improve security posture or optimize
your configuration management, as soon as they're available to
you. Continue on here to set up and onboard NGFWs and Prisma
Access mobile users and remote networks, and plan software
upgrades for NGFWs.
Generate, share, and schedule data-driven insights
shared through reports with visual charting, interactive query,
and recommendations to eliminate risk.
These are the
settings you'll find yourself coming back to when you are adding
new users, licenses, or admins, or even as you yourself are
getting started with Strata Cloud Manager:
