Ground Stud: Who Needs 'Em, Really?

Many devices seem to come with a Ground Stud on the back (ground cable not included, of course). It just occurred to me that I can't think of a single time I've seen this used. 

So... I'm not very electrically-inclined... I couldn't explain 3 phase

Question about ECH and its effect on URL filtering (without decryption) + how to block it

Hi team

We have received reports from users regarding URL filtering behavior and are investigating whether ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) is the cause. In our environment, we cannot apply SSL decryption, so we rely on inspecting the SNI
in the ssl_clien

Recommendation version to upgrade from 10.1.9 to version (PA-440)

Please recommend version to upgrade from 10.1.9 to version what. And the step by step to upgrade.

Avaya ports Blocking

Hello,

Schedule automatic backups on Palo Alto ION 1200

Hi team

We need to scheduled automatic backups for our ION devices

Can anybody help us?

Is there a API or other way for do it?

Regards

Wildfire False Positive on Detection of .XLSX extension

Wildfire False Positive on Detection of .XLSX extension

from Feb 24th,2026. In our organization started receiving wildfire alerts as information severity for the office extensions files for example. .xlsx files.

hash value : 6e81b1b3fc08fb5f481d8882

Screen reader Application hang

We are seeing issues whereby JAWS Screen Reader ‘hangs intermittently’ creating a full grey screen in windows with spinning eggtimer once clicked the application closes and creates a windows hang event.

limited dump logs have identified a potential

Import Certificate using new Cloud Option

Hi

Has anyone recently imported any SSL certificate using the new Cloud option where it lets import AWS/AZURE certificates on panorama (photo attached). How does this feature work, it only lets you put the Cloud Secret name, tried putting the ARN b

Failed to validate client certificate, thread : 0, 1-0!

Hi team

Version PA 11.1.6-h3

Model 1420

Version USER_ID 11.0.1

Windows 2019

We have had an incident with the User ID agents, which have been disconnected from the firewall.
In the logs of the firewall itself the error message was: “Redistribution A

Panorama API ServiceNow integration, getting Hit Counts

Dear Community

We try to get out the hit counts from the API connection between Panorama and ServiceNow. Is there someone in the community who has experience where the hit counts can be read out? Within the API documentation, we were not able to ge

"Bugs" on Syslog Field Descriptions documentation PAN-OS 11.1+

I found a lot of "bugs": typos, missing fields, unstandarized naming, etc. in the Syslog Field Descriptions documentation PAN-OS 11.1+

All the inconsistencies are documented in https://github.com/enotspe/palos/blob/main/EDGE_CASES.md

Hopefully Pa

PA1420 IKE packet disappear between receive (ingress) and firewall session state

Hi,

we have an PA-1420 Active/Passive HA-Cluster. Behind that Cluster we also use a Cisco FirePower 1150 as our VPN-Gateway, so IKE traffic (udp-500 and udp-4500) is passing our PA-1420. Our PA-1420 has to ISP connections for failover, both are ded