Backup Palo Alto Configuration with SolarWinds NCM | Config Backups

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Backup Palo Alto Configuration with SolarWinds NCM

Backup PaloAlto Configuration  | Con

Login in your Paloalto device and navigate to Device > Setup > Operations > SNMP Setup.

After that you need to Setup your SNMP here, here i am going to use SNMPv3, enter your SNMP name and enter SNMP parameters like below screenshot.

 

 

and now navigate to Device > Setup > Managment > click on the gear icon on “Managment Interface Settings“.

 

 

and add your NCM IP here to allow through firewall

 

 

Now open the NCM dashboard, click on the Settings > Manage Nodes.

and click on the “Add Node”

 

 

select SNMPv3 Authentication method as SHA1 and select encryption as AES128.

and Finally, click on the “Test” to test the SNMP test.

 

 

and most important part is “connection Profile“, enter your device static username and password and select SSH protocol and finally click on the “Test” to test the configuration backup here.

 

and now it’s time to schedule your backup by clicking on My Dashboard > Jobs.

and click on the “Create new Job” option to create your new job. Here you will get an option to scheduled your job.

 

mel.mcgurk

From our own experience with Palo Alto devices, we found we were running into SCP errors for the Device State Backup. What we found was the backup to SCP was failing when run on a schedule using the Guest account. Our resolution was to create a password based account on the SCP server and set the SCP credentials in SolarWinds. Then create a new separate job for the Device State backup which runs fine on schedule now.