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How and Why to Accept a Solution to Your Post

Did you know that you can help your fellow community members by accepting solutions when a reply answers your question. Accepted solutions are a super-helpful resource in the community, and we want to make sure our members understand how this feature

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Resolved! acc risk factor

Hello Support Team,

I'd like to know a mathematical formula of acc risk factor.

It doesn't seem a session-based average value.

Regards,

Tomoyuki Komure

Application block page - not enabled by default

I've noticed in PAN OS 5.x that the application block page is not enabled by default. Obviously it can be manually enabled.. but was this done for a specific reason to address some common problems experienced by customers?

I could surmise that perhaps

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PAN-OS Ver 4.0.5. What version should I update to?

My PA-500 is currently running on PAN-OS ver 4.0.5.

What is the recommended version i should update to?

4.1.16 or 5.1.11 or 6.0.0?

Thanks and regards.

Convert from vwire to layer 3 for globalprotect.

I'm trying to put together a plan of action to get globalprotect to work for us. I have a work ticket open with PA. Our PA firewall is currently deployed in a VWire setup, on the lan side of our router. Here are my big questions for getting this acco

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Resolved! SYN-Flood packets dropped by unknown rule

Hi everybody,

we got a lot of syn-packets which were dropped by the rule any-allow. But we haven't this rule, so is it a inbuilt rule and

why do i need a DoS-Rule to be protected against Syn-Floods if there is a builtin rule.

Cheers klaus

Response Page Operation

All,

So, just a possible silly question about the order if you will of response page activation - specifically around the Application Block and the URL Block. Per the documentation:

Application Block Page: Activated when application access not allowe

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Resolved! Decryption policy Issue

Hi All,

I'm just trying to configure decryption. because I'm facing Issue while blocking applications(not all the applications got blocked as the policy supposed to do).

First of all, I'm using Trusted CA, and here you are the steps I followed To gener

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Resolved! GlobalProtect with NATet interface

I have a PA200, and is using eth1 for outside (internet) and eth2 for inside. I'm NATing from eth2 to eth1, as normal.

Now i want to have the management https address on the eth1 for several reasons.

At home its just for testing, but at my office i hav

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dynamic updates are downloaded but not installed

hey

we have a cluster that is configured to download and install updaetd but we can see that it is only downloading them and doen not update,

where can i find related logs on the device? (PAN-OS 5)

Dropbox (again)

Hello,

We have a requirement to do the following

Block dropbox for some users

Allow dropbox web for some users but block app - use ssl decryption to control uploads

Allow ALL for 2 VIP's - no decryption required

Is this at all possible?

Resolved! Panorama 5.1 with fw PanOS 4.1.14

Hello Everyone,

We deploy a panorama 5.1.4 and 2 fws are managed on it, one of the fws is running PanOs5.0.8 and another one is running 4.1.14. We can see the fws normally on Panorama -> Managed devices and Templates tabs. however when I finsh a ldap-

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Resolved! DHCP Service

In the PA software support Boot Server Host Name and Bootfile Name options?

Outgoing SMTP

It used to be best practice to not allow outgoing SMTP except from the primary server. I am finding more and more applications have a dependency of allowing SMTP outgoing. I am curious what others are doing with regard to these dependencies.

Thanks,

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Upgrade to PANOS 6.0.0

Have anyone upgrade PANOS to 6.0.0 already ? any problems ?

I wonder why version 6.0.0 release date (01/19/2014) is older 5.0.11 (01/29/2014).

Regards,

Restricting users to Internet only

How can I restrict a certain group (ip range\VLAN) to internet only access.? I don't want them to get to internal network shares with unfamiliar devices. We use Aruba Clear pass to authenticate and assign IPs and the PA 500 sits on the parameter. I

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