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Introducing the LIVEcommunity Support FAQ: Your Valuable Customer Resource

LIVEcommunity is thrilled to introduce its new Support FAQ section, designed to help Palo Alto Networks customers quickly resolve their common queries.

You'll find this new area under the Articles section of the main menu:

Our goal is simple:

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Resolved! Ruby on Rails vulnerability CVE-2013-0156

When can we expect a content release to address the Ruby on Rails vulnerability CVE-2013-0156?

Additional authentication for specific zone

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to request an additional authentication for a specific zone with PAN-OS 5.0?

The requirement would be to have regular userauthenticated through regular ActiveDirectory/NTLM for regular zones. However for very sensitive zo

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A general web proxy server deployment with PAN box

Hi All,

I think this topic has been discussed in the past, but I want to be clear about this deployment

since web proxy server design is still typical in many customer's live network. So please allow me to bring this again.

2 basic deployments are ment

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Allowing some protocols from any user/port?

I am curious what others are doing for some protocols: Examples: DNS, ocsp, STUN, meraki, apple push notification, etc. It seems to me that these sorts of things could be let go for pretty much all users, anytime and be excluded from the captive p

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Blocking pictures with GPS Data

I'd like to use the PA to block pictures that contain GPS exif data in jpeg, tiff, and other uploads to social media sites. Has anyone done this already?

Commit failed

Hi everybody,

Device: PA-2050

Firmware: 4.0.1

we are getting this error message when we try a commit.

What is happening when this appears and what can we do?

A rollback to a further config version is not helping.

Error message:

Management server failed to s

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Monitoring - source user not shown in log

Although the "agentID client" is installed on one of our domain controller boxes, I find that when using MONITOR log to look at the traffic, it doesn't show the "source user" of whom is currently logged in via Active Directory. Any idea why?

In additi

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Resolved! PA-500 IPsec VPN

Hi all,

I have a general VPN tunnel question.. Was do the status lights on the IPsec tunnel indicate (see below)? I understand green is goo and red is bad, what I don't know is why is there two? I can surmise that the second one is the "IKE Gateway/Sa

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FAO: PAN. Brightcloud Server Down / Miscategorization of websites based on Dynamic dB on version 3955. Why??

Dear Palo Alto Networks,

Off late, I have been seeing some bizzare issues with Brightcloud services version 3954 and 3955. As per what I could see under the system logs, on 09/10/12, the brightcloud server could not receive data and there was failure

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Resolved! BGP in a cluster deployment

hi!

I was wondering how to use BGP in a HA active/standby deployment? a common design with floating IP addresses (HSRP/VRRP like) is to use two additional switches to connect to two upstream ISPs so a link failure doesn't result in an active member ta

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Resolved! Site to site VPN issue

Folks.

I have an issue with some site-to-site configurations that is bugging the cr*p out of me, and I thought I'd post it here.

I run some site-to-site VPN's (Palo Alto to Cisco 887 routers) which come up fine, but which seem to defy *all* configurati

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Resolved! Moving from Global Protect 1.1.6 -> 1.1.7

I believe moving away from 1.1.6 now requires a trusted certificate? I have about 600 remote users on 1.1.6.. trying to get to the latest rev (1.2.1) without any user interruption. I tested with our QA firerwall and I am getting certificate errors.

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Skype - Cannot add Contacts and Skype Home Page Unavailable

Greetings,

I have come across an issue which is confusing me and I am running out of options to find a solution:

PANOS version: 4.1.9

User-ID agent : 4.1.3-2

I had issues with ip-user mapping and group-mapping ever since I've upgraded to 4.1.9. Any new

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Resolved! Maximum number of virtual wire on PA 500

Hi all,

I try to found the suitable PAN model for support my environment. I design PAN to support 2 virtual wire and 1 NAT network. I'm not sure that PA 500 will support 2 virtual wire. I prefer throughput and session number that support by PA500

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Resolved! Security/App-ID Bypass?

Can someone within Palo Alto Networks comment on this video? This seems like it could be an easy attack vector...

Palo Alto Networks Security Bypass - YouTube