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Pan-OS database

g-crisostomo — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:03:07 GMT

Hi guys, greetings.

On of my customers asked me a simple question about palo alto database. How does it work internally? Is there any SQL database internal on PAN-OS? Should it be accessed by any external factor like APIs os something like that?

Re: Pan-OS database

JayGolf — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:25:48 GMT

Hi @g-crisostomo ,

Are you referring to the PAN-DB? or are you hoping to learn about the architecture of the PAN-OS operating system that runs on all PANW firewalls?

Re: Pan-OS database

g-crisostomo — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:16:52 GMT

It's about the architecture of the PAN-OS operating system that runs on all PANW firewalls

Re: Pan-OS database

g-crisostomo — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:09:21 GMT

Hi @JayGolf, did you see my last information?

Re: Pan-OS database

JayGolf — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:48:40 GMT

Hi @g-crisostomo ,

I don't believe that information is available to the public. I would recommend reaching out to your SE/ Account team for further questions.

Re: Pan-OS database

OtakarKlier — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:44:08 GMT

Hello,

Its a flat database designed for speed, so its definitely not sql.

Regards,

Re: Pan-OS database

BPry — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:14:56 GMT

@g-crisostomo,

There's actually a number of different databases used by PAN-OS, for example User-ID is kept in a REDIS database with the IP and user being kept as a simple key/value pair (which is why fundamentally an IP can only be mapped to one user). You can glean some additional information by looking at the OSS listings that they publish, like the fact that something uses SQLite. PAN isn't really going to disclose the inter workings of their operating system though.