{"id":2650,"date":"2025-08-24T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:18:11","slug":"palo-alto-11-x-lab-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto 11.X Lab Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of the Role we are Migrating from Checkpoint to Palo Alto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its been Long time since it was Palo Alto 8.X  hands on experience and Lost completely with latest Palo Alto trends, so Like to review my knowledge and hands on so when we Migrate to Palo Alto its much easy for me to troubleshoot and Monitor the Palo Alto device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Lab i am going to use Palo alto Image 11.X version to testing some available features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i believe we may need trail License to get all the features working, Let me setup and ask for Demo Licese to work on more advanced Features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Setup Exsi 8.0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palo Alto OVA automatically choose the compute resources, not changed anything major part of the setup see how this works for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CPU 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RAM &#8211; 6GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HDD &#8211; 60GB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Ethernet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when i start it will 5min and able to get DHCP automatically from my Home Router as below :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image.png 764w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-705x556.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After 2 min i get Login prompt &#8211; no hard until here :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"83\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2652\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure you understand the Login Prompt :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>vm login:   --&gt; still booting<br>PA-HDF login:  --&gt; still booting<br>PA-VM login:    --&gt; Now you can login<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>default admin\/admin, then ask you to change the password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-4.png 617w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-4-300x88.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then use GUI https:\/\/192.168.1.72<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-1024x607.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3-705x418.png 705w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Get the Trail License from PALO (this is hard to get &#8211; i do not know why PALO not offer trail here for all the users to test their feature before buying, any way this is Palo own terms and wide users accepting &#8211; Personally they should have 90days unlimited License for the wide admin to get hands on LAB, that is where where more professionals of PaloAlto Security engineers will be in the market to support)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You want to SN Number :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>&gt; show system info | match serial<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>> request license info  - you will see what License you have<\/strong><br><br>Example :<br><br>License entry:<br>Feature: PA-VM<br><strong>Description: Standard capacity 30-day eval License<\/strong><br>Authcode:<br>Expires: Never<br>Expired?: no<br><br>Another good command to see how the Device performing :<br> <br>> show session info<br><br>example :<br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5.png 694w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-5-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>>configure  ( Manipulate software configuration information)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"239\" height=\"73\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2713\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>checking the Logs from command level &#8211; is good option like Linux tail and grep command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>>tail lines 100 mp-log<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-1024x160.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-1024x160.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-768x120.png 768w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-1536x241.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7-705x110.png 705w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-7.png 1852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>>grep mp-log syslog-ng.log pattern (regex)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-1024x161.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-1024x161.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-768x121.png 768w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-1536x242.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8-705x111.png 705w, https:\/\/www.balajibandi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-8.png 1865w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me look at some features and post the next Blog with a more detailed Security point of view<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Labbinggggggggggggggggggggggggg!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Role we are Migrating from Checkpoint to Palo Alto. 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