Automated alerts when Log Forwarding stops / freezes?

Hey Community -

Wondering if anyone has come up with a good way to automate an alert / alarm when there is an issue with a Firewall reporting to a DLC (distributed log collector)?  We have about 27 firewalls all of which send to 1 of 4 log collectors

WildFire Capacity Issues - Confirmed by Palo Alto SE

Apparently Palo Alto have confirmed that there are times when WildFire is simply too busy to serve all update requests (we've been seeing frequent failures).

Can anyone from Palo Alto comment on what the capacity situation is, what is being done to re

PAN-VM license upgrade from eval to full with HA setup

Hi,

I have two PAN-VMs in HA setup running on eval license and just got my full license Auth code but it seems like going from eval license to full license  can not be done seamless. I have read about the cloning procedure but need to know how I shoul

URL Filtering Log shows FORWARD

Hey All -

I have several URL-Filtering logs that come through with a category of FORWARD.  Everything else is blank (URL, From Zone, To Zone, etc.).  Can anyone shed some light on what this means?

Thanks!

Matt

Decryption certificate

Hi,

I have a PA500 (OS 5.0.11)

I already configured it for SSL Decryption with a self signed certificate.

I need to use a Digicert Certificate. I already have a wildcard certificate with Digicert.

Question is: can I use my wildcard certificate for SSL De

FTP

How can I verify whether port 21 ftp traffic is being blocked by the PA 302?

Tunnel

I have a vpn tunnel that works fine most of the time and then is just goes down for no reason any suggestion

Special Character in domain name

Hi,

I have a domain with special character "&" in the NetBios domain name. In the FQDN name this character has been substituted by "e".

By user-identification, PAN discover the users, but some have the "&" character in domain name and some have "e" cha

High Availability weirdness

Hi.

I have a pair of 2020's (I know, don't comment - they're getting upgraded soon, I hope!) which run in active/passive HA pairing.

This morning, I noticed the following entries in the logs on my primary (normally active) device

websense webfilter as proxy

Hi All,

I have websense web filter license. I want to integrate it with PAN firewall. Could you share any documents to integrate it as proxy.?

Please guide. Thanks

Feature Request

Hi all,

I have a feature request (hope PA respond to it...)

It would be nice if we could schedule automatic backup configuration using FTP (preferred), TFTP or SMB protocol.

Regards,

HA