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General Topics
Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.
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Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.

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BGP Across Two Data Centers

hey all, we have a customer who currently has two PA-2050 nodes setup with HA at one location.they would like to split the pair and have one PA-2050 at Site1 and the other at Site2 ... setup as Active/Standby.There would be two private L2 networks between them - one for the HA/keepalive and the other to tie in the inside interfaces.each pa-2050 ...

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tcp-fin and aged out

I know there are timeouts set for different application is there a reason other that session table information. Is there any risk? Is it the firewall that is closing a connection? If so what would it close a active connection? Is there a security reason why you should make the time outs longer?

jdprovine by L4 Transporter
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Object Names and IP Addresses

I've run across an interesting "feature" in working with the Palo Alto system. I'm converting from the Checkpoint platform and have found a feature that I use in the Checkpoint all the time, but don't have available in the Palo Alto Panorama. If you type the IP address of an object, but that address is not part of the name, you won't be able t...

User-ID for Exchange Permission Issue

Hi All,I'm running an agent-based User-ID setup against three AD DCs and two Exchange CAS servers. Unfortunately, despite having the Event Log Reader permission, I cannot seem to get data from the Exchange servers. I am successfully getting data from the DCs, but the Exchange servers always show either Connecting or Connecting (A required priv...

HA question

Hi,In an HA pair does the passive HA unit also generate the canned predefined reports? Or only the active HA unit?Thanks,Emma

Problems with ms lync / url filtering

Hi all,I am trying to get lync2013 working, and more specifically Skype for Business, successor of Lync. I have Lync 2013 completely working, but I would like to permit all the wildcards permitted through url filtering, linked to a number of applications as Stun, ssl, mslync,... After this rule , there are also other url filtering rules, for exa...

Time stamp of traffic/threat/url logs are 3 minutes into the future?

Threat logs, traffic logs, url filtering logs are all in the future by 3-4 minutes where everything else has the correct time from the ntp server. The dashboard shows the correct time and what's interesting is that the Configuration and System logs show the correct time (same one as in Dashboard - General Information) yet as you can see the Logs...

zbierskik by Not applicable
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Resolved! Data plane User-ID mappings empty

We currently have a pair 5020s using LDAP for User-ID - up until about a week ago it was working.I can see in the logs that the mappings are taking place, and the management plane mappings are there, however the data plane table is empty.This is causing drops on policies which have User-ID as a stipulation.Any ideas?

VPN Tunnel between static Palo Alto and dynamic Fortigate

What is the exact settings in order to establish a VPN tunnel between a Palo Alto firewall that has static WAN IP address and a Fortigate that has Dynamic WAN IP address?If both has static IP address, the tunnel works.If Fortigate has dynamic WAN address, I cannot get the VPN working. I tried aggressive mode on both sides. Palo Alto log keeps ...

Not understanding "WildFire: Automatically Detect and Prevent Unknown Threats"

First of all I'm very impressed with Palo Alto's firewall, I'm definitely a "fan", however we purchased a wildfire subscription under this premise:WildFireTM simplifies an organization’s response to the most dangerous threats, automatically detecting unknown malware and quickly preventing threats before an enterprise is compromised. Unlike legac...

HIPmatch IP?

Palo currently emails me the hipmatch alert and includes the internal IP that globalprotect assigned it. How do I get the public IP that the user came from in the hipmatch alert email?I know I can manually find it via the interface (which shows both the internal and external IP for users) but since hipmatch is emailing the internal IP field, how...

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Resolved! Captive Portal logs

HelloDoes anybody know how can I get some logs to check how many times a specific user was authenticated via Captive Portal?Is it possible ?Thanks in advance!!!

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