Palo Alto PAN-OS Adv threat and AV Update scheduling

M.Gannon — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:58:40 GMT

Hi,

Newish to Palo Alto and learning about the automatic download and updates and watching the training videos.

If I set the PA to check every 24hours and come back a week later and can see a list of Updates. Do I need to download all of updates, or by clicking the latest one to download, is the firewall clever enough to know it needs to download a weeks worth of update, or will it only download the updates for the last 24 hours?

Thanks!

Re: Palo Alto PAN-OS Adv threat and AV Update scheduling

mshekh — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:50:40 GMT

Hi @M.Gannon ,

If I set the PA to check every 24hours and come back a week later and can see a list of Updates.

Ans: Yes firewall will download without any intervention as per configured settings.

Do I need to download all of updates, or by clicking the latest one to download, is the firewall clever enough to know it needs to download a weeks worth of update, or will it only download the updates for the last 24 hours?

Ans: No Manual intervention required, It will download the required updates as per configuration. you don't have to download manually.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/ngfw/administration/update-firewalls/schedule-dynamic-content-updates

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-1/pan-os-web-interface-help/panorama-web-interface/panorama-device-deployment/schedule-dynamic-content-updates

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