How to Migrate from PAN-DB to BrightCloud on the Palo Alto Networks Device

Overview

This document describes how to move from PAN-DB URL Filtering license to BrightCloud URL Filtering license on a Palo Alto Networks device.

Steps

• From the WebGUI, go to Device > Licenses and click "Retrieve license keys from licenses server" under License Management. The BrightCloud Url Filtering section will appear when the BrightCloud licenses have been successfully retrieved.
  Note: In a High Availability (HA) environment, bring the device into the non-functional state in order to change the URL Filtering database.

• Click "Activate" under the BrightCloud URL Filtering section:

• Activating the BrightCloud URL Database can take a little while  but the WebGUI will reflect the change from PAN-DB to BrightCloud, as shown below:

   

  

   

   

   

The same result can also be achieved using the following CLI command:

> set system setting url-database brightcloud

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