How to change from "management-only" mode to "Panorama mode" for Panorama deployed in AWS
Objective
There are number of cases where requirement is to change mode from management to Panorama for the Panorama deployed in AWS.
This document does not provide detail on initial deployment of panorama in AWS, it gives detail on how to change mode once its deployed initially.
Environment
- Panorama deployed in AWS
- Supported PAN-OS
- Management mode ( can be verified by using show system info | match mode)
Note:. The VM must have 8 cores and 16 GB RAM to change the mode.
admin@Panorama> show system info | match mode
model: Panorama
cloud-mode: cloud
vm-mode: Amazon AWS
system-mode: management-only
operational-mode: normal
Procedure
1. Create 2 TB Disk Volume.
a. Login to AWS console
b. EC2 > Volumes > Create Volume
2. Create Volume
a. Size : 2048
b. Disk should be in same Availability Zone as VM which is "us-east-1a" for this example.
c. Create Volume
3. It would look like below, where Disk/Volume status is available.
4. Attach the Disk/Volume to the Panorama-VM instance ID > Click on Attach Volume
5. Click on Attach
6. The disk Status is changed to in-use which means, it has been successfully attached to the VM.
7. Login to Panorama-VM via CLI
8. Run command "show system disk details" to verify if the disk has been detected by the VM. If the disk is not detected, then there must be an error to follow first 7 steps. please perform the instructions again.
admin@Panorama> show system disk details
Name : xvdf
State : Present
Size : 2097152 MB
Status : Unavailable
Reason : Admin disabled
9.Run command "request system system-mode panorama" to change mode from management-only to panorama.
admin@Panorama> request system system-mode panorama
Broadcast message from root (Fri Dec 27 09:36:35 2019):
Initializing the log buffer disk; please wait...
10. panorama-VM would boot after couple of minutes with panorama mode.
admin@Panorama> show system info | match mode
model: Panorama
cloud-mode: cloud
vm-mode: Amazon AWS
system-mode: panorama
operational-mode: normal
11. You can add more disks to Panorama-VM, please repeat steps 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
12. For the next disk, the Device path changed from "/dev/sdf(path for first attached disk)" to "/dev/sdg(path for second attached disk)"