PA3020 fans always running at 100% speed?

First thing I noticed when I plugged this in was that it's very loud. Normally a device spins down the fans when it's at a cool temperature (which is pretty much all servers and appliances from the last 10 years).

So is there any way to change the fan

Packet Descriptors spike

Hi All,

I've been collecting and plotting CPU, Session, Packets Descriptors, Packets Per Second, as well as some other metrics. Once in a while I see a spike on the Packet Descriptor graph.

According to KB article How to Interpret: show running resourc

6.1.3 update issue: Threat database handler failed

Hey all-

I tried updating a test box to 6.1.3 and encountered the error in the title. Per other threads, I tried manually downloading the latest content version and installing but it resulted in an error during install.

Has anyone else encountered thi

Kerberos SSO PAN-OS 7.0.1

Hello,

at the moment I'm trying to set up a SSO Auth with the Admin Web Interface (and Captive Portal). I set it up like the documentation of PAN-OS 7.0 told me. I tried different Crypto types but all with the same error.

1. Log in to the KDC and open

Why viruses/spywares passes PA device unblocked?

Hello

Until now I trusted that default configuration for most purposes is OK.

Today I discovered that few viruses passes in smtp traffic to my email server. I'm curious why?

when in web-broswing traffic the same type of aplication "virus" was denied.

My

IP Directed Broadcast

Hello,

We want to use wake on LAN in a vlan attached to a layer3 interface on the firewall. The magic packets are sent from a server outside the vlan to the broadcast address. I allowed WOL-packets in the firewall policies, and I see them in the logs,

url_filtering problem

HI all,

We have a cluster of 2xPA3050, for protection to untrusted zone. Last week we enabled the trial license for url_filtering. Since that moment we have met a special problem. We use a citrix application over ssl in the cloud. This citrix server i

Packet drops in LAN interface,..

Hi All,

For a 5 minutes we are unable to access internet ( even not able to ping next hop router), We observed that there is a packet drops in PaloAlto LAN interface, below snap shows the same. Can any body give the reason for this packet drops?

Please

LAB PA-200 fails 7.0.1 upgrade

I have a Lab PA-200 that I have been upgrading to the latest version of PAN OS for testing.

I have been uploading the OS file and upgrading for a while.

The 7.0 file worked fine. After the alert about 7.0. I attempted to upgrade to 7.0.1.

No joy. In Fir

VM-Series firewall on VirtualBox

Hi,

I know that VM-Series firewall requires VMware ESXi running vSphere 4.1 or 5.0.

But I don't have VMware right now on my laptop and only I have is Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.6 - just for tests and presentations (not for commercial purpose)

On VirtualBox I

mgmtsrvr - virtual memory limit exceeded, restarting

Has anyone seen this before?  I'm looking for feedback on whether or not this is directly related to the VM Panorama sits on?  This was the decription of an alert I received at 12:30EST today.  Sure enough, Pano was rebooting.  Any information provid

Routing Between Virtual Routers in Same Firewall

I have two Virtual routers in same Firewall I wanted to allow traffic between the Virtual routers, I configured  rules to allow traffic from Trusted L3 zone in VR1 to Trusted zone in VR2 and vice-verse and put them at the top of the rules and also I