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More posted questions and answers from the booth @Ignite! Topics include Aperture, API, best practices, GlobalProtect, LightCyber, log forwarding, firewall management, MineMeld, Panorama, Traps, User-ID, VPN, and WildFire. Got questions? #GetAnswers here.

Part 2 of the questions from the #GetAnswers wall at Ignite: Wildcard search in Traffic Monitor. Pre or post policy with Panorama? Base version when upgrading the firewall, and syncing downloads across an HA pair. App-ID or service/standard ports with traffic? Best method to intro span VLANs. 

Lots of discussions on the Live Community ask about the new Panorama 8.0 and the logs and log collector upgrades needed after upgrading. There is some confusion about the upgrades. I answer these questions in this blog.

Just in case you have not seen the "Customer Notice" at the top of the screen, I wanted to bring your attention to the fact that the certificate Panorama uses to communicate to PAN-OS devices is going to expire!

Your device can only store so many logs. Where did my older logs go ? Why am I only seeing 2 days of logs ? Are my older logs gone? 

Log Retention

Have you ever wanted to spruce up your Security Policy Rulebase with color? Starting with PAN-OS 6.0, a new feature to Color Code Tags has been introduced.This new feature really can liven up your Rulebase, making it much easier to read and verify your rules.Here is an example of a Rulebase with no ...