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User-ID Agent & Desktop PowerManagment

We have User-ID agent setup and running, Where it polls the machines every 20 minutes, to track the users.

Since we are now trying to implement Power management on the Desktop. It appears that the USER-ID agent system is waking the machines up. Has an

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Resolved! How can I publish a Server via a public IP from the same Subnet of the WAN Interface?

Hi guys,

I'm new to PAN Firewalls and currently I am trying to publish a customer's SBS Server via a PAN200. The Firewall has the public IP 218.1.1.218(of course i posted a fake one ) and the server shall be accessible via 218.1.1.220.

- I've configur

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VPN GlobalProtect

I have a escenario with a Microsoft TMG and Palo Alto Virtual Wire.

How I do to create a VPN SSL with HIPS control.

nat with port forwarding issue (migrating from MS-TMG)

Hi,

when migrating rules from MS-TMG to PAN i have encountered folowing situation:

a. web server A is in private dmz zone

b. web server B is in inside zone

Both are listenig on port 80. Problem is in the fact that both are published on the same public IP

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Resolved! Is it possible to create a custom report that mimics Browsing Summary by Website in a User Activity Report?

Community,

I'm trying to create a custom report that mimics the browsing summary available under the user activity report but the custom report does not group results the same way. For example, if I have a user visit multiple news stories at www.

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Resolved! Blocking Spotify P2P function

We want to allow the use of Spotify for our clients, but Spotify does not only download files, but it also shares files through P2P to other users of Spotify.

We wish to only allow download/streaming, and we wish to block the P2P upload feature.

Please

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Resolved! User ID Mapping Directly to Firewalls

Good afternoon,

Previously we used the PAN-UID perl module to update User ID Agents running on servers, which would in turn update the firewalls.

With version 5.0, there is not this capability:

2.9 User-ID mapping

Beginning with PAN-OS 5.0.0, you can ap

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Resolved! what do people search ?

Hi,

Is there a way to track especially google searches from url filtering ?

From url filtering logs it cannot be seen the same url as a person visit when searches for a word.

we need search stats

Unknown Application Packet Capture

Hi

I want know about Unknown packet capture.

Q1. Where is unknown pcap stored?

[Device] > [Setup] > [Management] > [ Logging and Reporting Settings]

App Pkt Capture ?

Q2. I want know Unknown Pcap Usage.

Q3. When is capture unknown packet in PA packet flo

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Resolved! Captive portal not redirecting for some users

Hi there

We've just enabled Captive Portal for all of our users but I'm getting a small number of users who are simply not being redirected to the captive portal to authenticate. I've noticed that Safari on Mac is a common theme but there are a number

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Domain is pointed as Malware

Hello,

today we had a suspicious DNS Query warning because we tried to reslove a domain (pandaro.be).

So Palo Alto gets information about domains and checks some information about these domeains.

My questions about this:

1/ What is PA using to decide w

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Resolved! link aggregation down

Hi,

We configured link aggregation but although switch side ports become up, on PaloAlto they are down.

Any idea ?

show interface ae1

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Name: ae1, ID: 48

Link status:

Runtime l

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vpn issue

Hi,

After side to side vpn established correctly after sometime(I do not know how many hours) Phase1 becomes passive.Side1 cannot access Side2.

when we try to use test vpn command for ike it becomes up and it works.What can be reason for that ?

how do I assign multiple networks/subnets using only one physical interface?

I have an isp with 4 ip blocks then another with 3 ip blocks. I plug my 2 isp's in a switch then with only one cable from the switch to Palo Alto then from Palo Alto to my local network.

What I want to happen is that i can choose what isp i want to us

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VWire configuration testing

Hi,

At a recent PA training, the instructor mentioned a testing method for testing the configuration of VWire objects and the traffic flow, as configured in your Security Policy. The goal of this method is the ability to do testing in a lab environme

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