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Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

Bakh777 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:49:36 GMT

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

jvalentine — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 06:47:12 GMT

Custom application is an application running in your environment that was created by your organization (or specifically for your organization) and is not likely to be seen in other customers' environments.

Custom App-ID is a custom signature that administrators can create on the firewall to control custom applications (or even common applications where an official App-ID is not yet available)

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

TranceforLife — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 06:50:35 GMT

Hi,

My understanding these terms are the same. You can create a custom application (additional app-id in Palo local database).

EDIT: @jvalentine has better explanation

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

jvalentine — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:21:30 GMT

@TranceforLife: I’m willing to bet the terms are also used interchangeably here in the community forums and potentially in the official documentation.

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

BPry — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:49:57 GMT

@jvalentine,

There's a lot of instances in the admin guides where a 'custome application' is really an app-id, I can't say I really recall the other way around being brought up though.

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

ice-quake — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:42:27 GMT

Once a custom app is defined will security policy implicitly block the custom app if it isn't referenced in any policy?

Re: Can someone provide a detail difference between the terms custom application and custom app-id?

BPry — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:20:52 GMT

@ice-quake,

Yes. For example if I make an app called 'WSL-Slate', I'll need a security policy that actually allows my users to access this 'WSL-Slate' application.