General Topics

Join us for an amazing virtual event - Ignite: What's Next - October 1, 2025

AI is upon us, and here's a fantastic chance to learn more about it!

During this virtual event, we will be hearing from top industry experts and senior executives within Palo Alto Networks about PANW's plans for AI to help drive a more secure futur

...

Discover LIVEcommunity Through Our New Animated Explainer Video!

We’re thrilled to unveil a brand-new animated video that highlights everything LIVEcommunity has to offer!

This short and engaging video gives you a quick tour of the many resources available in our vibrant community — from interactive discussi

...

Resolved! Question regarding ARP timeout

Hi,

I have a question regarding ARP caching and timeout on the Palo Alto platform.

Based on the output of the "show arp all" command, it looks as if the "default timeout" is 1800 seconds. I am doing some work with failover for a cluster inside my fire

...

Firewall is doing packet captures on it's own

Hi,

I just noticed two traffic log entries that had packet captures attached. I didn't enable this anywhere, and just to make sure, I just went through the whole config (all profiles) to make sure I didn't enable it by accident. Are thre any circumsta

...

Groups that the user belongs to

Hi,

When we want to look at ip address of a user

show user ip-user-mapping ip ........

Groups that the user belongs to (used in policy) comes empty.

I tried

debug user-id refresh group-mapping all

Also I can see all gorups on group mapping.

TS Agent on Citrix XenApp 6.0 farm

Hello,

Our XenApp farm IP range is dynamic and the servers could spin up on any number of IPs within a couple of segments. Does a TS Agent entry for every single possible IP need to be added on the PAN device, or can I configure it to look at a subne

...

Resolved! How does SSL inbound decryption work exactly?

I am not looking for a guide on how to configure it, there are plenty. What I want to know is how SSL inbound decryption works from an architectural point of view. In the docs it says that once you loaded the webserver's certificate onto the PAN devi

...

Radius Authentication

Hi,

we use Vpn authentication for portal LDAP and for gateway Radius

Users can connect using their names to portal with typing user and password

after that they type another user name and password for Radius.

When we look we see the logs of users coming

...

Resolved! Excel XLSX recognized as ZIP file

Hello,

I configured a File Blocking profile to block specific file format (like Exe, PE, RAR, etc).

Unfortunately, this profile also blocks Excel file in new format (.XLSX).

No problem, with the old format (.XLS) !!

After reading some doc, it seems that

...

Resolved! Not Receiving Scheduled Reports

Kind stumped on this one. I have some scheduled reports I'm not receiving. I was getting them on a daily basis as configured in the email scheduler but they just stopped one day and no changes to the firewall were made. I've created a report group, a

...

Palo Alto as a route reflector

Hi,

I have a couple of PA-500 clusters and I want to use them as route reflectors for my internal BGP network. There doesn't seem to be anything in the documentation on how to do this but the documentation suggests the Palo will do it, I was wondering

...

Resolved! Some has a problem blocking Youtube Application?

I recently had problems with blocking youtube, I added a policy where I deny the application access to youtube. When I go to the YouTube page and I try to watch a video, the first time if it hangs correctly, but if I try more times with other videos,

...

Resolved! DNS proxy policy

when you create a dns Proxy policy you declare only the ingress interface

or egress interface ?

Resolved! group member attribute

when you create a ldap profile by default

the group member attribute is defined to member

my question is

member for palo does mean "memberOf" for Ldap group attribute.

and in this way each autentication request is answer with all users nested groups

...

https coaching page - Connexion reset depend of browser

Hi all,

Configure a continue action on certain url category. If request in made in http no issue. If request is made in https, depend of your browser, I have

- Chrome V27.0.1453.110 m => erroe page with connexion reset

- FireFox V21 => erroe page with

...

client cert invalid message when connecting global protect with client cert

Hello

I had tested to connect global protect with client cert successful in my lab.(PANOS-5.0.x)

I am installing global protect on my custom device.(PANOS-5.0.x)

But I don't connect with 'client cert invalid' message.

I had installed the following in my

...

IPsec X-Auth with RSA On-Demand Tokens

Hi, I have PAN working with RSA On-Demand tokencodes (these are SMS-based tokens) when using GlobalProtect and the management UI but cannot get it to work with IPsec X-Auth. RSA On-Demand tokens work like this:

1) User enters their username and PIN to

...

Discussions

Join us for an amazing virtual event - Ignite: What's Next - October 1, 2025