Welcome to the poweralto wiki! Poweralto is a PowerShell module that provides tools for discovering, configuring, and troubleshooting Palo Alto Next-Gen Firewalls through their XML API.
So far, this module adds 16 new cmdlets as follows:
So far, this module adds 18 new cmdlets as follows:
- Find-PaAddressObject: Search Address Objects and Address Groups for a given IP, FQDN, or string.
- Find-PaObjectUsage: Find unused Address Objects and Address Groups.
- Get-PaConnectionString: Connects to a Palo Alto firewall and returns an connection string with API key.
- Get-PaLogJob: Formulate and send an api query to a PA firewall.
- Get-PaNatRule: Returns NAT Ruleset from Palo Alto firewall.
- Get-PaObjectUsage: Returns Security, Nat, Address and Address Group usge of specific search string.
- Get-PaSecurityRule: Returns Security Ruleset from Palo Alto firewall.
- Get-PaSystemInfo: Returns general information about the desired PA.
- Invoke-PaCommit: Commits candidate config to Palo Alto firewall
- New-PaLogJob: Formulate and send an api query to a PA firewall.
- Restart-PaSystem: Restarts PA and watches initial autocommit job for completion.
- Restore-PaPreviousVersion: Reverts to previous configuration version
- Send-PaApiQuery: Formulate and send an api query to a PA firewall.
- Set-PaSecurityRule: Edits settings on a Palo Alto Security Rule
- Set-PaUpdateSchedule: Defines schedule for content updates.
- Update-PaContent: Updates Pa Content files.
- Update-PaSoftware: Updates PanOS System Software to desired level.
- Watch-PaJob: Watch a given Jobs progress.
To install poweralto, download poweralto.psm1.
Place it inside a it's own directory (named poweralto) inside your Powershell Module path. You can get your PSModule path from $env:PSModulePath. For example:
- Current User scope:
C:\Users\user\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\poweralto\poweralto.psm1 - Local Machine scope:
C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\poweralto\poweralto.psm1
After the file is in place, you can then import it into your PowerShell session:
Import-Module poweralto