Configuring Palo Alto Administrator Authentication with Cisco ISE (Radius)

Let’s assume a simple scenario. You have two different teams managing your Palo Alto firewalls. One team is made up of network administrators who need full access to the firewalls. The other team only needs limited access and should not be able to make any configuration changes.
A common way to handle this is by using Admin Roles and a remote Radius server. You can assign different admin roles based on who is logging in, without creating local users on every firewall. In this post, we will look at how to achieve this using Cisco ISE and Radius. You do not have to use Cisco ISE, any Radius server can do the job, but this post focuses on Cisco ISE since it is commonly used in enterprise environments.

Overview
For this example, we will have two users, each belonging to a different group with different access requirements. In most environments, group membership is managed by something like Active Directory. For the sake of simplicity, Continue reading



