Welcome to 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 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 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