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PAN-OS session recording
Every PAN-OS CLI session captured frame-perfect — configuration mode, commit-with-validation, scope changes between vsys. Searchable text across all sessions.
Palo Alto Networks dominates the enterprise next-generation firewall segment, with PAN-OS as the core platform and Panorama for centralised management. Innovexus brokers SSH and Panorama web admin sessions to every PAN-OS-based platform — no agent, no Cortex-required integration, no panorama plugin. Sessions are recorded, credentials rotate on schedule, configuration commits are baselined and diffed.
Innovexus is agentless from the PAN-OS device perspective. Connection is via SSH (preferred) for CLI sessions and SAML SSO for Panorama web administration. Anything authenticating against TACACS+, RADIUS, LDAP, or local PAN-OS users is in scope.
Most Palo Alto fleets are running through Innovexus within 1–2 business days. The integration uses standard PAN-OS AAA — local users, TACACS+, RADIUS, or LDAP — and standard SAML SSO for Panorama web administration.
Pull existing PAN-OS admin credentials (typically `admin` and any operator-class users). Vault them. The Innovexus pod takes over as source of truth; rotation runs on schedule.
Add the Innovexus pod's outbound IP to your `Permitted IP Addresses` configuration on each PAN-OS management profile. Restrict SSH to the pod IP. Existing TACACS+/RADIUS/LDAP authentication continues at the device level.
Map your PAN-OS admin roles (`superuser`, `superreader`, custom role profiles) to Innovexus role definitions. Engineers see only devices and admin roles their role permits. For Panorama, SAML SSO is configured via the Innovexus identity layer.
Session recording captures the full PAN-OS CLI experience including configuration mode, commit-with-validation, and rollback events. Configuration drift collection uses `show config running` for clean baseline diffs across virtual systems (vsys).
Engineers log into Innovexus with their FIDO2 hardware key, click into a Palo Alto device, and the brokered SSH session opens with the assigned admin role. Panorama web access flows through the same Innovexus identity. Recording, audit, and credential lifecycle operate automatically.
Every PAN-OS CLI session captured frame-perfect — configuration mode, commit-with-validation, scope changes between vsys. Searchable text across all sessions.
Local admin credentials, TACACS+/RADIUS shared secrets, and LDAP bind credentials rotate on schedule. Rotation respects PAN-OS commit semantics — new credentials applied via the candidate-config + commit workflow.
PAN-OS Permitted IP Addresses configuration ensures Palo Alto devices accept management connections only from the Innovexus pod IP. Out-of-band emergency access still possible via vaulted local credentials.
Continuous baseline collection across the running config including all virtual systems. Drift detected outside approved sessions fires an alert. Approved-change baseline promotion via the brokered-session workflow.
Engineer SAML SSO into Panorama through Innovexus. Panorama-mediated changes still live in the unified audit trail; the Panorama identity is tied back to the FIDO2 hardware key the engineer authenticated with.
Network monitoring and security operations alongside PAM. Same console, one audit trail. Threat events from PAN-OS forward into the SOC workspace alongside session events for correlation.
Direct, sourced answers about how Innovexus integrates with this vendor's platforms.
No. The integration is direct via SSH and SAML for Panorama. Cortex XSOAR (SOAR), Cortex XDR (EDR), and Strata Logging Service are not dependencies. If you run them, Innovexus complements them — we handle privileged human and vendor access; Cortex handles security automation, EDR, and analytics.
vsys-aware. Engineers are mapped to specific virtual systems through their Innovexus role; brokered sessions land in the correct vsys context based on assigned admin role profiles. Configuration drift collection runs per-vsys with diffs scoped accordingly. Multi-tenant PAN-OS deployments work cleanly.
Yes. The vault rotates `admin` on schedule. Rotation uses the candidate-config + commit pattern: new password is applied to the candidate config, validated, and committed atomically. If a commit fails (e.g., another admin has uncommitted changes), rotation retries on the next scheduled cycle. NOC alerts fire for stuck rotations.
For Prisma Access tenant administration, the integration is via SAML SSO — engineers authenticate to Prisma Access through Innovexus identity, which provides hardware-rooted MFA at the platform login. There is no traditional CLI session to broker for Prisma Access since it is cloud-delivered. The audit benefit is identity attribution: every Prisma Access admin action ties back to the FIDO2 hardware key.
PAN-OS has solid built-in admin authentication options — TACACS+, RADIUS, LDAP, SAML, plus authentication profiles with MFA. Those work fine for the AAA decision at the device. Innovexus adds the brokered-session layer above them: hardware-rooted identity, full session recording, atomic credential lifecycle for the credentials those AAA backends use, and unified audit across multi-vendor environments. The two are complementary.
Yes. Engineers and automation tools (Ansible, Terraform with Palo Alto provider, custom scripts) can authenticate against Panorama using vault-issued short-lived API keys retrieved through the Innovexus platform API. Both interactive and automated paths log to the unified audit trail. The benefit: API key custody moves from individual engineer secrets stores into the central vault with full lifecycle audit.
Vault PAN-OS admin credentials, set Permitted IP Addresses to the pod, point engineers at it. Panorama SAML SSO is wired the same day. 5-day trial, no card required.