Panorama > Administrators

Select Panorama > Administrators to create and manage accounts for Panorama administrators.

If you log in to Panorama as an administrator with a superuser role, you can unlock the accounts of other administrators by clicking the lock icons in the Locked User column. A locked out administrator cannot access Panorama. Panorama locks out administrators who exceed the allowed number of failed successive attempts to access Panorama as defined in the Authentication Profile assigned to their accounts (see Device > Authentication Profile).

To create an administrator account, click Add and configure the settings as described in the following table.

Name

Enter a login username for the administrator (up to 15 characters). The name is case-sensitive, must be unique, and can contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores.

Authentication Profile

Select an authentication profile or sequence to authenticate this administrator. For details, see Device > Authentication Profile or Device > Authentication Sequence.

Use only client certificate authentication (Web)

Select to use client certificate authentication for web interface access. If you select this option, a username (Name) and Password are not required.

Password/Confirm Password

Enter and confirm a case-sensitive password for the administrator (up to 16 characters). To ensure security, Palo Alto Networks recommends that administrators change their passwords periodically using a combination of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, and numbers. Be sure to use the best practices for password strength to ensure a strict password.

Device Group and Template administrators cannot access Panorama > Administrators. To change their local password, these administrators click their username (beside Logout at the bottom of the web interface). This also applies to administrators with a custom Panorama role in which access to Panorama > Administrators is disabled.

You can use password authentication in conjunction with an Authentication Profile (or sequence) or with local database authentication.

You can set password expiration parameters by selecting a Password Profile (see Device > Password Profiles) and setting Minimum Password Complexity parameters (see Device > Setup > Management), but only for administrative accounts that Panorama authenticates locally.

Use Public Key Authentication (SSH)

Select to use SSH public key authentication: click Import Key, Browse to select the public key file, and click OK. The Administrator dialog displays the uploaded key in the read-only text area.

Supported key file formats are IETF SECSH and OpenSSH. Supported key algorithms are DSA (1024 bits) and RSA (768 to 4096 bits).

Note:

If public key authentication fails, Panorama presents a login and password prompt.

Administrator Type

The type selection determines the administrative role options:

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Dynamic—Roles that provide access to Panorama and managed firewalls. When new features are added, Panorama automatically updates the definitions of dynamic roles; you never need to manually update them.

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Custom Panorama Admin—Configurable roles that have read-write access, read-only access, or no access to Panorama features.

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Device Group and Template Admin—Configurable roles that have read-write access, read-only access, or no access to features for the device groups and templates that are assigned to the access domains you select for this administrator.

Admin Role

(Dynamic administrator type)

Select a predefined role:

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Superuser—Full read-write access to Panorama and all device groups, templates, and managed firewalls.

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Superuser (Read Only)—Read-only access to Panorama and all device groups, templates, and managed firewalls.

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Panorama administrator—Full access to Panorama except for the following actions:

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Create, modify, or delete Panorama or firewall administrators and roles.

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Export, validate, revert, save, load, or import a configuration (Device > Setup > Operations).

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Configure a Scheduled Config Export in the Panorama tab.

Profile

(Custom Panorama Admin administrator type)

Select a custom Panorama role (see Panorama > Managed Devices > Summary).

Access Domain to Administrator Role

(Device Group and Template Admin administrator type)

For each access domain (up to 25) you want to assign to the administrator, Add an Access Domain from the drop-down (see Panorama > Access Domains) and then click the adjacent Admin Role cell and select a custom Device Group and Template administrator role from the drop-down (see Panorama > Managed Devices > Summary). When administrators with access to more than one domain log in to Panorama, an Access Domain drop-down appears in the footer of the web interface. Administrators can select any assigned Access Domain to filter the monitoring and configuration data that Panorama displays. The Access Domain selection also filters the firewalls that the Context drop-down displays.

Note:

If you use a RADIUS server to authenticate administrators, you must map administrator roles and access domainstoRADIUS VSAs. Because VSA strings support a limited number of characters, if you configure the maximum number of access domain/role pairs (25) for an administrator, the Name values for each access domain and each role must not exceed an average of 9 characters.

Password Profile

Select a Password Profile (see Device > Password Profiles).

Parent topic

Panorama Web Interface