VM-Series Plugin Flashcards
What is the purpose of the VM-Series Plugin?
enables integration with public cloud environments, such as GCP, Azure, and AWS, and private cloud hypervisors such as KVM, ESXi, and others
What does the VM-Series Plugin do, when a VM firewall is deployed?
automatically detects the virtual environment on which the firewall is deployed and loads up the plugin components that enable to manage interactions within that environment
How do you install the VM-Series plugin?
it is pre-installed on the VM-Series firewall
Is it possible to delete the VM-Series plugin?
no; can only upgrade or downgrade it
What does the VM-Series plugin allow to do?
- publishing custom metrics to cloud-monitoring services (such as AWS CloudWatch)
- bootstrapping
- configuring user credential provisioning information from public cloud environments
- seamless updates for cloud libraries or agents on PAN-OS
Where does the firewall publish metrics to in case of GCP?
Google Stackdriver Monitoring
Where does the firewall publish metrics to in case of Azure?
Azure Application Insights
Where does the firewall publish metrics to in case of AWS?
AWS Cloud Watch
What happens to the plugin version when downgrading to an earlier PAN-OS software version?
the plugin version is downgraded to a compatible version
How can be the VM-Series plugin upgraded or downgraded?
locally on the virtual firewall or manage the plugin version centrally from Panorama
Is the VM-Series plugin available on Panorama?
yes, but it is not pre-installed
What is the condition for plugin installations required on both Panorama and managed firewalls?
the plugin version installed on Panorama must be equal to or higher than the plugin version installed on managed firewalls
What needs to be done if Panorama should manage the integrations on firewalls?
install the VM-Series plugin on Panorama to establish communication with the VM-Series plugin on the firewalls
