As I go through setting up new Palo Alto Network’s firewalls I’m going to place a new key notes and tutorials in this post for reference as I need them.

Default Username/Password is: admin/admin

Default IP address for MGT Interface for Physical Appliance: 192.168.1.1/24

Note: For VM series the MGT interface is set to DHCP.

From the CLI with known admin user password:

request system private-data-reset

• Erases all logs
• Resets all settings, including IP addressing, which causes loss of connectivity
• Saves a default configuration after the MGT IP address is changed

Without known admin user password:

From the console port type,

maint

• Choose Reset Factory Default
• Or load another configuration into running memory