
What’s New in PAN-OS 6.0
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Management Features
Commit Improvement—The commit operation in PAN-OS and Panorama has been enhanced to allow configuration
edits during a commit. For example, if two administrators are logged in to the same firewall and the first administrator
performs a commit, the second administrator can make updates to the configuration during the commit. This
enhancement does not, however, allow multiple administrators to commit simultaneously.
Content Delivery Network (CDN)/Update Server Verification—Palo Alto Networks will begin transitioning to the use
of a CDN for delivery of software and content updates to devices running PAN-OS/Panorama 6.0 or later. This new
process will provide a secure and distributed infrastructure to improve the software update process and license
installation/verification for customers around the world.
In addition, a new option has been added to strengthen all secure communication between firewalls/Panorama and the
Palo Alto Networks update servers. When this feature is enabled, Panorama or PAN-OS will not perform a
software/content download unless the update server has an SSL certificate signed by a trusted authority. This will help
ensure that software updates and license verification will only be performed from Palo Alto Networks and will eliminate
the possibility of man-in-the-middle attacks.
Rule Numbering—Each rule in the Policies tab is automatically numbered and the ordering adjusts as rules are moved
or reordered. When filtering rules to find rules that match the specified filter(s), each rule is listed with its number in the
context of the complete set of rules in the rulebase and its place in the evaluation order.
In Panorama, pre-rules and post-rules are independently numbered. When rules are pushed from Panorama to a
managed firewall, the rule numbering incorporates hierarchy in pre-rules, device rules, and post-rules within a rulebase
and reflects the rule sequence and its evaluation order.
Reporting Enhancements—Reporting enhancements in this release include support for creating group activity reports,
complementing user activity reports and the ability to disable predefined reports. Because Panorama does not have the
user to group mapping information, you cannot generate group activity reports on Panorama.
CLI Find Command—The new CLI find command helps you find a command when you don’t know where to start
looking in the hierarchy. The command—which is available in all CLI modes—has two forms. You can either use find
command alone to display the entire command hierarchy in the current command mode. Or, you can use find command
with the keyword argument to locate all commands that have the specified keyword.
Support for Syslog over TCP and SSL—PAN-OS and Panorama now support using TCP or SSL (default is UDP) for
reliable and secure transport of logs to an external syslog server. SSLv3 and TLSv1 are supported and the default SSL
port is 6514. To separate individual syslog messages in a TCP stream, the delimiter formats available are LF- Line Feed
(BSD Format, the default), and Message Length (IETF Format).
SNMP Resource Monitoring Extensions— All Palo Alto Networks firewalls support SNMP objects that provide
resource utilization and failure reporting, including alerts for hardware failure, the insertion and removal of the power
supply, disks, or system fans, and monitoring of resource utilization for high session use or load on the gateway.
The HOST-RESOURCES-MIB includes objects for monitoring the following:
o Memory and disk usage on the management plane. Swap utilization tracks how the swap space is
used to store all the running programs that aren't being actively used to free up memory.
o Packet buffers on the data plane.
The Enterprise MIBs include objects for monitoring the following:
o GlobalProtect gateway utilization in the PAN- Common MIB- to monitor the total number of current
active tunnels on the firewall device and the percentage on current tunnel utilization that is based on
the number of active tunnels and the maximum number of tunnels allowed.
o Session utilization in the PAN-Common MIB for each virtual system to track the active sessions, and the
percentage of current session utilization based on session limit configured for the virtual system.
Support for Color-Coded Tags—Tags allow you to group objects using keywords/phrases and color (optional) to
visually distinguish objects. You can apply tags to address objects, address groups (static and dynamic), zones,
services, service groups, and policy rules.
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