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How to count sessions at Palo Alto.

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Hello all.

I would like to know how to count sessions at Palo Alto.
I do not understand that the number of sessions is different between the two devices.
The two devices are Palo Alto and BIG-IP.
It is counted as 140 thousand sessions at Palo Alto and 30 thousand sessions at BIG-IP.
Thank you.
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Community Team Member

Hi @awawa100,

 

In short : On a Palo Alto Networks firewall, a session is defined by two uni-directional flows each uniquely identified by a 6-tuple key: source-address, destination-address, source-port, destination-port, protocol, and security-zone.

 

Find much more information about sessions on Palo Alto Firewall here :

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Learning-Articles/Palo-Alto-Networks-Firewall-Session-Overview/...

 

Cheers !

-Kiwi.

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