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Install the Palo Alto Networks 9 App and view the Dashboards

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This page provides instructions for installing the Palo Alto Networks 9 App, along with examples of each of the dashboards that provide visual insights into your data.

This page provides instructions for installing the Palo Alto Networks 9 App, along with examples of each of the dashboards that provide visual insights into your data.

Install the App

To install the app, do the following:

Locate and install the app you need from the App Catalog. If you want to see a preview of the dashboards included with the app before installing, click Preview Dashboards.

  1. From the App Catalog, search for and select the app. 
  2. Select the version of the service you're using and click Add to Library.
  1. To install the app, complete the following fields.
    1. App Name. You can retain the existing name, or enter a name of your choice for the app.

    2. Data Source. Select either of these options for the data source.

      • Choose Source Category, and select a source category from the list.

      • Choose Enter a Custom Data Filter, and enter a custom source category beginning with an underscore. Example: (_sourceCategory=MyCategory).

    3. Advanced. Select the Location in Library (the default is the Personal folder in the library), or click New Folder to add a new folder.
  2. Click Add to Library.

Once an app is installed, it will appear in your Personal folder, or other folder that you specified. From here, you can share it with your organization. 

Panels will start to fill automatically. It's important to note that each panel slowly fills with data matching the time range query and received since the panel was created. Results won't immediately be available, but with a bit of time, you'll see full graphs and maps. 

Dashboard filters

Each dashboard has a set of filters that you can apply to the entire dashboard, as shown in the following example. Click the funnel icon in the top dashboard menu bar to display a scrollable list of filters that are applied across the entire dashboard.

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Each panel has a set of filters that are applied to the results for that panel only, as shown in the following example. Click the funnel icon in the top panel menu bar to display a list of panel-specific filters.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Overview

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Overview dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of threats and events by type and severity. Panels also display information on user activity, source hosts geographic locations, and bandwidth consumption by app and virtual system. 

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Analyze activities by severity level, geo-location, and bandwidth consumption. 
  • Investigate events for more detail. For example, if “Threats By Severity Level” shows “Critical” threats, you can find out more on the threat-related dashboards, such as Threat Overview, Threat Analysis, Traffic Insight - File Activity, and Traffic Insight - Web Activity.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Threat Overview

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Threat Overview dashboard provides insights into the types of threats on your network, threat severity, and threat comparisons over time. Panels also display information on threats impacting the most IPs, IPs receiving multiple threats, IPs generating threats, and users who are impacted by threats.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Identify threat subtypes. 
  • Identify threats that affect multiple IPs, IPs affected by multiple threats, and identify source IPs or users that are either responsible for generating threats or are most impacted by threats.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Threat Analysis

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Threat Analysis dashboard provides detailed information on threats by type, severity, outliers, and trends over time. Panels also display details on non-critical and critical threat events, top source and destination IPs, as well as apps by severity, and threat categories.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Get detailed information on identified threats.
  • Review rules fired and actions that were taken.
  • Analyze trends, threat outliers, and threat direction.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - High Severity Threats

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - High Severity Threats dashboard provides visibility into high severity threats that are coming from and impacting the most hosts.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Identify the impact of high severity threats, including the most involved source and destination IP addresses.
  • Identify high severity threats caused by and impacted by hosts.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Insight - File Activity

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Insight - File Activity dashboard provides visibility into file activity detected by PANOS firewall devices. Panels also display top apps, trends for events and file activity, and trends for file outlier activity.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Monitor end user file upload and download activities.
  • Track suspicious file types being uploaded or downloaded through various apps. 
  • Monitor unexpected activities via outlier detection capabilities.
  • Detect unexpected activities via outlier detection and time comparisons.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Insight - Web Activity

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Insight Web Activity dashboard provides insights into user web activity on your network with the number of events, activity by category, top apps, URLs, and zones. Panels also show details on content types, zones, event and web activity trends, and web activity outliers.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Monitor end user web browsing activities. 
  • Track URLs and the content browsed by various apps.
  • Monitor sudden changes in activities though outliers. 
  • Compare current activity trends with prior time intervals. 

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Monitoring

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Traffic Monitoring dashboard provides insights into the traffic on your network, including protocol trends, top source and destination IPs, top app activities, geographic locations of public IPs, and top destination ports. 

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Detect sudden changes in allowed or rejected traffic via the outlier panels.
  • Monitor the types of content being accessed by various apps and virtual systems.
  • Track the bandwidth consumed by specific apps and take corrective action as necessary.
  • Use the geographic location map to track the source and destination locations and block certain locations or IP address ranges from your firewall if needed.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - Configuration Analysis

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - Configuration Analysis dashboard provides visibility into device configuration activity on your network.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Identify details around device configuration changes including users, configuration changes, mechanisms used and source systems.
  • Monitor failed and successful configurations changes to ensure they are in line with expectations.
  • Monitor sudden changes in device behavior, and investigate whether or not a configuration change was the root cause.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - HIPMatch Monitoring

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - HIPMatch Monitoring dashboard provides visibility into the number of HIP events, HIP name, HIP type, and firewall devices accessing your network. Panels also show information on active hosts and users, as well as users and systems with multiple policy violations.

The GlobalProtect Host Information Profile (HIP) matching collects information on the security status of the end devices accessing your network. A firewall can allow or deny access to a host based on HIP-based security rules. HIP Match logs display traffic flows that match a HIP Object or HIP Profile configured for rules.

Use this dashboard to:

  • Analyze the security status and policies violations of your endpoints and hosts.
  • Determine whether to allow or deny resource access to a specific host based on adherence to host policies.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - System Monitoring

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - System Monitoring dashboard provides insights into events on your network by type, severity, and trends. Panels also display data for objects by event type and severity level, and details on recent system feeds.

Use this dashboard to: 

  • Identify system issues, such as hardware failures, HA failures, links down and dropped connections with external devices.
  • Monitor firmware and software upgrades. 
  • Monitor user activity, such as password change notifications, logon, logoff, administrator name or password changes, and configuration changes.

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Palo Alto Networks 9 - USERID Monitoring

The Palo Alto Networks 9 - USERID Monitoring dashboard provides insights into user activity on your network, with information on authentication factor, content type, and trends for content and new user activity. Panels also show details on the top firewall devices, source IPs, active users, and users who connected from multiple IPs.

Use this dashboard to:

  • Monitor users logged into a device on an IP generating the traffic. 
  • Detect which users are not using secure multi-factor authentication.
  • Get better visibility into the application activity at a user level so as to define policies based on users or groups of users.

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