Before start configuring GlobalProtect, needs to generate/import an SSL certificate and create an SSL/TLS Service Profile. And also needs an Authentication Profile, you can either create a local user base or use an external one. An example of using OneLogin and AWS SSO. Security zone First of all, needs to create a security zone …
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GlobalProtect supports various authorization methods, including SAML 2.0 IdP. This example shows how to set up authorization using AWS SSO. AWS Before adding SAML IdP, you must already have AWS Directory Service configured To begin with, let’s add an application, for this go to “IAM Identity Center” -> “Application assignments” -> “Application” And click “Add …
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GlobalProtect supports various authentication methods, including SAML 2.0 IdP. This example shows setting up authentication through OneLogin. OneLogin First, let’s add an application, for this, in the OneLogin admin interface, go to “Applications” and click “Add App” In the search bar, enter “globalprotect” and click on it In the settings, set the name of …
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PAN-OS only allows you to generate self-signed certificates or already import existing ones. To use a Let’s Encrypt certificate, you need to request it on another device, and therefore we can only use DNS as validation. AWS Route53 is used as a DNS provider, we will use Certbot to obtain a certificate, we also need …
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VM-Series Firewall SSH To use WebUI, we need to set an administrator password, for this, need to connect via SSH. After creating instances, it takes 10-15 minutes before the Firewall is initialized and will be available via SSH Connect to the first instance, SSH user – “admin” And execute the following commands: Enter the …
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The Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall uses an active/passive configuration for high availability. In which the active firewall constantly synchronizes its configuration and information about active sessions with a similarly configured passive firewall. There are two options for achieving HA on AWS: “Secondary IP Move” and “Dataplane Interface Move“. Secondary IP Move If the active …
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After upgrading PIP to CentOS 6, which still uses Python2.7, PIP for each command crashes with an error. For example: Reason: PIP versions above 20.3 do not support Python2.7 Solution: Install latest supported version
To extract a file path or filename from a full path, you can use various utilities like grep, sed, awk, etc. If it’s not a list from a file or variable, you can use find, but there’s an easier way: basename – returns the filename dirname – returns the path to the file Example: …
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In order to mount an S3 Bucket as a file system, you need to install s3fs Create a directory to mount: And add the following to “/etc/fstab“: Where: “artem-service-bucket:/upload/” – S3 bucket name and the directory inside the bucket to mount “url=https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com,endpoint=eu-central-1” – the region where the S3 bucket is located “iam_role” – …
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It is necessary to extract the login and password from RDS, which are stored in AWS Secret Manager and use their values in the Terraform code. To do this, you can use the following construction: And use variables: