topic URL Filtering and search ahead in General Topics

URL Filtering and search ahead

aveva_palo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:55:32 GMT

I have 2 questions about fomr palo's we've just bought.

FIrstly I'm trying to upgrade the URL filtering definitions, andwhen I click upgrade, it pops up and says this will take a few minutes, but regardless of how long I leave it (up to an hour on a 30Mb internet connection) it's still not upgraded. Is there any way I can see the progress of this job to see what's happening? If anyone ahs any ideas about this, it would be great to know before tomorrow (as we're going live with our first box then).

Also, are there any plans to implement a search ahead function as part of the url filtering, so that my users can see little green ticks or red crosses next to the search results on google, etc?? I know it's not a huge deal, but it keeps them happy.

Thanks

Andy

Re: URL Filtering and search ahead

nrice — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:32:08 GMT

Hi,

You can follow the progression of the BrightCloud download with the following CLI command:

admin@PA-500> tail follow yes mp-log pan_bc_download.log
Feb 18 10:14:54 URL database download: 96% done
Feb 18 10:14:55 URL database download: 97% done
Feb 18 10:14:55 URL database download: 98% done
Feb 18 10:14:55 URL database download: 99% done
Feb 18 10:14:55 URL database download: finished!
Feb 18 10:16:02 Max. entries: 374 at index 32672
Feb 18 10:16:09 Time taken: 32
Feb 18 10:16:09 URL filtering database was upgraded from version 3269 to version 3270 by the auto-update agent

I don't think anything is on the roadmap at this point regarding the URL search function you mentioned, but you can make an enhancement request through your SE.