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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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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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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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JayGolf by Community Team Member
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Syslog via TCP?


I note that the PA-2050 units I have running 4.1.7 PanOS generate their syslogs as UDP/514.  Is there any way to tell the unit to use TCP for syslog messages?

Our SIEM/syslog collector (AlienVault) seems to be missing some of the syslog messages we (

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Resolved! Data pattern limitations.

Hi All,

"Save the telnet" movement inspired me . I'd like to find out if any one is experiencing same limitations I do:
- " at least 7 bytes" limit in Custom Data Patterns.

- "regex" has very limited capabilities in Custom Data Patterns.

Would adding t

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abraun by L1 Bithead
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allowing MS product activation and denying web access

I have a network that I want to allow MS product activation to work but web browsing and other internet activity to be denied.

I have two main security policies that apply just to this network although DNS and ntp is also allowed:

The first one is an a

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kjh by Not applicable
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Alarms - Log DB size over threshold

Hi guys,

It looks like our PA-2050 is not purging old log files from the database. When we log in to the Web UI we get alarms like this:

According to the documentation this error shouldn't occur. The PA box should automatically purge old log entries wh

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oschuler by L4 Transporter
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Zone to Zone for OWA/activesync?

Our users private devices are on a separate subnet/vlan and a separate PA zone using the Google DNS servers.  I have been forcing a captive portal in order to enable user ID for these devices.  This has been working fine.

I have set a rule so that the

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BobW by L4 Transporter
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Resolved! Panorama: Is it possible to assign an admin role to a vsys?

In Panorama, is it possible to assign an admin role to a vsys? I don't see the option on the admin role tab in Panorama. I only see it on the device itself. Please see attached screen shots as a comparison between the Panorama view and the Device vie

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bbsoc by L2 Linker
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Resolved! Has anyone ever seen this on the physical interfaces.

Was working for a while the the interface decided to go down and I kept getting this warning every time I commit.  I have checked both ends and it seems to me that the 10gig interface on the palo side is bad.  Both are the same so I do not understand

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way to overpass the report limitation to TOP 500?

Hi,

I need to know how many users access Category Social Network.

So i do a trafic report  with SESSIONS and SOURCE USER.  Top 500.

I have all i need, BUT i have more then 500 users. so i cannot know how many users access that category.

I have to calcula

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Resolved! PA200 process running at 100%

Hi there,

I've seen a task called pan_task taking up 100% cpu on two of my PA200's. Is this a PA200 specific thing? Not seen this on any other hardware platform, looking into it further it does not look like it's actually using 100% CPU, wondering if

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Ante by Not applicable
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Which logs to check for firewall auto reboot?

Hello,

I need to go through the logs to check why the active PAN 2020 rebooted itself. I only have access to the cli (I have to ssh via the now active FW).

Which logs should I check?? Under mp-log there is a whole bunch of logs I am not sure which one

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BTS_MS by L2 Linker
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BrightCloud to BlueCoat Category mapping?

Is there a more recent Blue Coat WebFilter to BrightCloud URL Category mapping?  I found the document from Jan2011 that lists the categories and the recommended mappings at that time.  However in the last 2 years both vendors have added and removed c

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robertb by L0 Member
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Firmware 4.0.8 to 4.1.8

I am new to Palo Alto firewalls and I am hoping this a quick easy question for somebody who is more familiar with them. I would to like to upgrade my PA500 to latest firmware. It looks like the latest release is 4.1.8 (I am using 4.0.8). I have downl

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