topic Re: DoS threshold per zone in General Topics

DoS threshold per zone

myky — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:38:43 GMT

Hi All,

What additional tool can l use to get CPS/SPS intonation hitting specific zone?

I found this KB with three wonderful MIBs:

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/9-0/pan-os-admin/zone-protection-and-dos-protection/zone-defense/take-baseline-cps-measurements-for-setting-flood-thresholds/how-to-measure-cps

Is there a way to get the same statistics for ICMP traffic? Are there any useful API calls to get similar or better statistics?

Thanks,

Myky

Re: DoS threshold per zone

S.Cantwell — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:11:54 GMT

Hello there!

PANW recommends importing their SNMP mibs into your mgr app, and query for the information you see.

Everyone's network is different, so there is no single numbers that work.

I am including a link to

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/9-0/dos-and-zone-protection-best-practices.html

And on this page are other resources for you to use.

Hope this helps.

Re: DoS threshold per zone

myky — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:12:27 GMT

Thanks, @S.Cantwell. We are currently running 7.1.x release, so in order to use updated MIB that has per-zone CCP/SPS OID we need to move at least to the 8.1.x firmware release.

Re: DoS threshold per zone

S.Cantwell — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:14:41 GMT

Agreed... 7.1 is close (if not already) considered to be an unsupported version of code.

When you upgrade, I would recommend that you get yourself into the 9.x version (as compared to 8.1), so that you will have some longevity to your solution.

Thank you.