New Navigation for the Cato Management Application

The CMA is the single management console to monitor traffic and configure settings in your Cato account. We are changing the grouping and ordering of the navigation menus in CMA to help increase admin efficiency and streamline workflows.

The CMA menus are built around the core themes of Security, Access, and Network which are based on a logical flow for CMA admin activities - monitoring traffic and activity, and configuration changes. For example, admins can monitor security activities in the Threats Dashboard page and then allowlist traffic that is false-positive in the Anti-Malware and IPS configuration pages under the Security menu. In addition, there is a new Home menu with pages that are useful across multiple themes to help you fully leverage Cato's converged SASE platform.

You can easily navigate to your most frequently used pages by adding them to your favorites.

The following are some general guidelines for understanding how the new menus are organized:

You can control which navigation you use with a toggle switch in CMA.

Use the CMA search menu to find a page in the search bar or by browsing the menu contents.

You can add up to 10 pages to your favorites for quick and easy access. Favorites are saved at the admin level, allowing each admin to customize their own list. If you no longer need frequent access to a page, simply remove it from your favorites. You can also add or remove favorites from the account menu.

We strongly encourage our customers to provide feedback, including what you like about the new navigation and suggestions for improvements. You can provide feedback through these channels:

To help customers with the transition to the new navigation and to collect your feedback to help us improve, we are rolling out the new CMA navigation over several phases.

In the first phase, the original navigation is the default setting with the option to toggle to the new navigation. In the second phase, the new navigation is the default setting with the option to toggle to the old navigation. Finally, we will remove the toggle, and you will only be able to use the new CMA navigation.

The following table lists the original and new locations for pages that appear under different menus in the new navigation. For pages that were renamed, the new name is listed.