Agentless User ID based network administration control using Windows AD server for PAN-OS

Hi All,

I am looking for information on if we can use PAN-OS to do user ID based authentication for network administration control. For example, if user are working from home or remote location, getting users authenticated via PA Firewalls by integrat

Is there a limit to the number of objects within a dynamic address group?

I'm working on doing some clean up, and I want to take advantage of dynamic address groups. I have 943 address objects tagged and one dynamic group. 

When I monitor the logs, I see some traffic bypassing my rule and going to rules below. I checked the

URL Filter Security Policy Structure

Hello all. New to PAN, and after reviewing the documentation on URL Filtering, I'm confused on the best practice deployment of the policy structure. Here's what I mean:

Let's say I want to break out the policies into multiple granular policies for cu

session_end_reason eq decrypt-error

I have a high number of sessions, for various webservers and clients, being closed due to decrypt-error. I've attempted to follow the tips from this document, but I'm still not clear on root cause: 

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Configuration-A

Query regarding upgrade Path to 8.1.21-h1

I have a PA-500 device running on 8.1.20 currently .

From this version can we jump directly to 8.1.21-h1 Or we need to go via intermediate path ?(8.1.20 >8.1.21>8.1.21-h1)

Also not able to see any Palo Alto reference article about upgrade path , Is it

Blank Setup page after downgrade from 10.0 to 9.1

Hi there,

Using a VM-50 that has been running fine on 10.0.2 until there was a need to downgrade the VM.

After taking backups then downgrading to the 9.1 feature release, the Setup page in the UI is now blank.

I have tried upgrading/downgrading to vari

firewall is preferring a higher cost route even though its learning lower cost route with same type in ospf.

Global Protect AutoVPN and Windows 10 Login Screen

When I login to my laptop computer - underneath my user name for sign in  SOMETIMES is the status

message: GlobalProtect Status: Connected (and under it the name of the GP portal/gateway.)

But at other times I see no such message or "sign in options".

QoS profile Bandwith vs Percentage

Hello All,

Recently I wanted to create a QoS profile for subinterfaces on AE interface based on percentage rather fixed throughput. That's why I have 2 profiles - one is throughput based and another one is bandiwth-based:

Funny thing is, I can apply

User-ID agent

We have User-ID agent installed on windows VM server. We want to increas the RAM on this VM to improve the performance. If I shutdown this VM, what will be the impact on user authentication during VM remain shut down? Please refer me to some KB so th