Is there a reason to hide hotfixes in Software Update?

I was curious to know if there was some prevailing notion as to why PA would keep the hotfixes hidden or at least not readily available from the Software section of the firewall itself.

It is displayed where deployment without the hotfix is a very bad

Palo Alto Vmware image

Hi,

I am planning to replace my company's firewalls with Palo alto instead of Checkpoint however I need try it out in a lab or something before I provide further information to my management team, Is there a way I can get a vmware image to try it out

BGP Dampening Profiles

All,

Does anyone know the CLI command to use to view the dampening profiles status on flapping routes?  There looks like a way to clear the status with clear counters bgp ... but I cannot find the available show command.

Thanks in advance,

Jason

4.1 series GUI dashboard

I have one box presently on 4.0.8 and one on 4.1.1. If I compare the dashboards, the 4.0 series one has the dates in the widgets in an international format (2012/01/12), which I have no trouble with. The 4.1 has the widget dates in a partial American

Agentless User-ID with PAN5.x - AD Configuration

I have read the tech article "How to Configure Agentless User-ID in PAN- OS 5.0.x"

I'd love to see this document broken into two docs - one that I can send out to customers to prepare for POC - the AD user account setup portion without the PAN firewal

CP Policy

I'm trying to setup a captive portal and authenticate users via a user certificate, but I cannot get it to work in 5.0.1.

I already have a client certificate profile created but which setting do I need in the CP policy (action):

web-form => does not wo

User Identification Agent Capacity

In your Pan Agent 2.1 documentation you did an excellent job of documenting User Identification from start to finish. I have yet to see one document such as this for 3.1.

Please reference page 7 of the Pan Agent 2.1 document and confirm or correct wh

Email Security

Is there a way for the PA firewalls to monitor scam email? For example, email that looks legitimate but has manipulated links (again that look legitimate) taking you to a redirected website that is malicious in nature? Is there a way the PA can monit