Managing Palo Alto Panorama

To add the Palo Alto Panorama manually to eG Enterprise, follow the steps below:

1. Login to the eG admin interface as user with administrative privileges.

2. Click on the Add Component button in the right corner of the Components at a Glance page that appeared or follow the Infrastructure -> Components -> Add/Modify menu sequence. Figure 1 then appears. Select Palo Alto Panorama as the Component type and click the Add New Component button.

   

   Figure 1 : Adding a New Component

3. Specify the Host IP/Name and the Nick name of the Panorama as shown in Figure 2, and click the Add button to register the changes.

   

   Figure 2 : Adding Palo Alto Panorama

4. Once the Panorama is added successfully, you will be again redirected to the Components at a Glance page (see Figure 3). Using the options provided, you can modify, unmanage or delete the newly added component. In addition, you can also configure the tests.

   

   Figure 3 : Configuring Palo Alto Panorama

5. To collect the performance metrics, you may need to manually configure the tests that are mapped to the Palo Alto Panorama component. To configure the tests that need manual configuration, click on the icon. This will lead you to the Specific Test Configuration page (see Figure 4) where the unconfigured tests for the Palo Alto Panorama component will be listed in the Unconfigured Tests list box.

   

   Figure 4 : List of unconfigured tests for Palo Alto Panorama

6. Click on any test in the list of unconfigured tests in Figure 4. For instance, click on the Panorama CPU test to configure it. In the page that appears, specify the parameters as shown in Figure 5 and click the Update button to configure the test.

   

   Figure 5 : Configuring Panorama CPU test

7. Once all the tests are configured, switch to the Monitor tab to view the performance metrics reported by the tests.