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Is there a possibility to limit the number of sessions

sylvia — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:58:03 GMT

Hi there,

I know that each model has a max number of sessions that can be handled overall. But is there a way to reduce this number of max sessions in the configuration?

Many thanks for your help.

Regards,

Sylvia

Re: Is there a possibility to limit the number of sessions

jleung — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:59:33 GMT

Hi Sylvia,

There is no way for change it, but you can have some session control if you are running PAN-OS 4.0. There is a DoS policy feature under the policy tab.

Regards,

Jones

Re: Is there a possibility to limit the number of sessions

migration — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:02:06 GMT

As far as I know (and see) you can limit the number of session handled by VSYS.

So, you'd need to configure multiple VSYS (considering the VSYS as hop for PBF policy you could be able to manage a situation with multiple VSYS for a single customer/business unit).

Re: Is there a possibility to limit the number of sessions

jleung — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:59:55 GMT

Yes. This is a good workaround 🙂

If you are going to limit the total session that the firewall can handle, it is impossible. But you can create two Vsys (you need additional Vsys license unless you are using PA4000 or PA5000 series) and use resource allocation to limit how many sessions each Vsys can have in total.

So creative!

Jones