Migrating Palo Alto Networks Firewall to Multicloud Defense with the Firewall Migration Tool in Firewall in Cisco Security Cloud Control

The Secure Firewall migration tool hosted on Firewall in Cisco Security Cloud Control lets you migrate configurations from Palo Alto Networks firewall to Multicloud Defense. To read more about the supported configurations for this migration, see PAN Firewall Configuration Support for Multicloud Defense in Migrating Palo Alto Networks Firewall to Cisco Multicloud Defense with the Migration Tool guide.

Select Source Configuration

You can migrate configurations from your Palo Alto Networks firewall by choosing Palo Alto Networks (6.1+) in the Source Firewall Vendor drop-down and uploading the extracted configuration file to Firewall Migration Tool. To read about the Palo Alto Networks firewall configurations that are supported for migration and the limitations around them, see Guidelines and Limitations in the Migrating Palo Alto Networks Firewall to Cisco Multicloud Defense with the Migration Tool book.

Select Target

On the Select Target page, choose Multicloud Defense. To know more about the prerequisites and the steps involved, see Specify Destination Parameters for Multicloud Defense in Migrating Cisco Secure Firewall ASA to Cisco Multicloud Defense with the Migration Tool guide.

Palo Alto Networks firewall to Multicloud Defense End-to-End Migration

Workspace

Steps

Security Cloud Control

In the left pane, navigate to Administration > Migration > Firewall Migration Tool, provision a new migration instance, and click Launch.

Palo Alto Networks Firewall

Export the Configuration File: To export the configuration from Palo Alto Networks Firewall, see Export the Configuration from Palo Alto Networks Firewall.

Secure Firewall Migration Tool

Choose Multicloud Defense as the target and specify the destination parameters. For more information, see Specify Destination Parameters for Multicloud Defense.

Secure Firewall migration tool

Navigate to where you downloaded the pre migration report and review the report

For more information, see Review the Premigration Report.

Secure Firewall Migration Tool

Optimize and review the configuration carefully and validate that it is correct. For detailed steps, see Optimize, Review, and Validate.

Secure Firewall Migration Tool

This step in the migration process sends the migrated configuration to Multicloud Defense and allows you to download the post-migration report. For detailed steps, see Push the Configuration to Multicloud Defense.

Secure Firewall Migration Tool

Navigate to where you downloaded the post migration report and review the report. For detailed steps, see Review the Postmigration Report.

Multicloud Defense

Verify the migrated configurations and use them as required in configuring gateways.