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The Panorama Administrator's Guide provides instructions on using the Panorama web interface to manage firewalls centrally or locally. It explains the context switch feature, which allows administrators to toggle between Panorama and specific firewall views, and details the indicators for high availability (HA) states of firewalls. Additionally, it outlines the requirements for configuring admin role profiles to enable context switching based on access to virtual systems (vsys).

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Context Switch-Firewall or Panorama

The Panorama Administrator's Guide provides instructions on using the Panorama web interface to manage firewalls centrally or locally. It explains the context switch feature, which allows administrators to toggle between Panorama and specific firewall views, and details the indicators for high availability (HA) states of firewalls. Additionally, it outlines the requirements for configuring admin role profiles to enable context switching based on access to virtual systems (vsys).

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The Panorama™ web interface enables you to toggle between a Panorama-centric view and a firewall-centric view using the
Context drop-down at the top-left of every tab. Set the Context to Panorama to manage firewalls centrally or switch context
to the web interface of a specific firewall to configure it locally. The similarity of the Panorama and firewall web interfaces
enables you to seamlessly move between them to monitor and manage firewalls.

The Context drop-down lists only the firewalls that are connected to Panorama. For a Device Group and Template
administrator, the drop-down lists only the connected firewalls that are within the Access Domains
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Filters within the drop-down.

For firewalls in a high availability (HA) configuration, the icons have colored backgrounds to indicate the HA state (as follows).
Knowing the HA state is useful when selecting a firewall context. For example, you generally make firewall-specific
configuration changes on an active firewall.

Green—Active.

Yellow—Passive or the firewall is initiating (the initiating state lasts for up to 60 seconds after boot up).

Red—The firewall is non-functional (error state), suspended (an administrator disabled the firewall), or tentative (for a link
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