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Palo Alto Admin Portal

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You can connect to the Palo VMs via the HMCTS VPN by following the following steps:

Sandbox

  1. Create the NSG rule to allow your IP on port 443. (Example and links to VMs below).
  2. Retrieve the url of the Palo VM you want to connect to via the ‘Virtual machines’ section below.

  3. (skip in production which is SSO enabled) Retrieve the admin password from the sandbox key vault:

    az keyvault secret show --vault-name hmcts-infra-dmz-sbox-int --name firewall-password --query value -o tsv

  4. Use the local account localadmin to log in.

Sandbox Virtual Machines

Non-prod

  1. Connect to the HMCTS VPN.
  2. Retrieve the url of the Palo VM you want to connect to via the ‘Virtual machines’ section below.

  3. Retrieve the admin password from the relevant key vault:

    # Non production
az keyvault secret show --vault-name hmcts-infra-dmz-nonprodi --name firewall-password --query value -o tsv

  4. Use the local account localadmin

Non-prod virtual machines

Production

  1. Connect to the HMCTS VPN.
  2. Retrieve the url of the Palo VM you want to connect to via the ‘Virtual machines’ section below.
  3. Click ‘Use Single Sign-On’.
  4. Press ‘Continue’ leaving the first text box prompt empty.

Prod Virtual machines

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