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Resolved! Change Monitor Data

Any way we can get the change monitor apps beyond the monitor tab?

Resolved! Syslog Suppression

Do you know if there is a way to throttle the syslog from the device. Most are licensed on an EPS scale which means throttling could help keep the volume down.

Resolved! MAP Widget bubbles

Can someone explain what the "Top 100" are with the map widget in the Monitor tab. Is it the most recent? Severe? Does it count multiple threats as the same from the same region?

Resolved! For Syslog

Is there a way to send the same syslog messages to two syslog servers at the same time ?

Re-evaluating current structure

I am currently managing users via AD groups but need a more granular approach. I recently added a BYOD device manager to my network. It divides my 2 main groups using a specific IP range. If I use this method to manage users I will probably have t

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Reports - IP to hostname mappings.

Hi.

I get a daily report out of my PA which shows some user activity and other stuff.

The report is not the issue - what goes into it is.

Part of what I have in the report is the source host name. And, for some IP addresses values, the report comes out

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Resolved! Radius Authentication issue

Iam configuring a new PA-500. I have set it up for Radius Authentication. When attempting to log on to the device I received the error "invalid username or password" at the Web UI screen. On the device in system logs I get the error "

User 'domain\use

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Resolved! Does Adding a Group Mapping Also Add the Users in that Group?

Hi,

I'm wondering, if I were to add an AD group to the Group Mapping pane on the firewall, are all the members of that group also added? Or do I -definitely- need UserID for that?

Thanks,

A.

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User id agent

Hi,

can we use user-id agent version 5.x.x with panos 4.1.10 for example ?

and can we use multidomain with panos 5.0 agentless system

thanks.

WildFire Logs versus Blocking.

For WildFire logs in 5.0.2 there is some confusion about the subscription. The question most ask is whether the lack of a wildfire subscription will still allow the logs in the WildFIre section to accurately alert if a file is potentially malware. A

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facebook games block

When I searched I can see there is a custom app for farmwille facebook app. But when customers want to block all facebook games ? How can we do this ? is there any signature for that ?

Or any update that PaloAlto works on facebook apps ?

Thanks.

Resolved! XBOX Live

We are a small university with a PA 2050. Since we installed the box, our XBOX live gamers have complained that they can't connect to XBOX live, or that if they ever DO connect, it takes a long time. The message they receive, in particular, is that t

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Active-Active HA and 10G

Most users with a PA5000 in Active-Active HA are running these mutli-datacenter. Can someone explain how traffic over HA links would synchronize sessions if the connections are at 10G. We basically notice downtime when the appliances go down for pe

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Layer 2 Bridge and ARP Table.

Hi All; Quick post to help anyone looking for the answer to this. If you are randomly seeing slowness every few days from the network and eventually have to reboot your perimeter router or the firewall, it may be that your ARP table is full.

When s

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Resolved! Unable to Export CSR from Panorama?

Hi,

I just generated two CSRs on Panorama, and I am unable to export them. When I try, I get an errors.txt file that says "Failed to prepare CSR <CertName> for export". I've worked around this by committing the configuration to the devices, and then e

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