CLI "target" command

Can someone please explain what the CLI "target" command actually does?  It says that its for a "management session target".  What does that actually mean?

HSRP:- Ideas / suggestions thoughts on how to achieve this using Palo Altos in Active/Passive.

Greetings Evereyone,

I need some ideas / suggestions / thoughts on:

For reference, I just attached a hand drawn network diagram.

Just to provide a brief description, I have a network scenario that presently uses HSRP to maintain Active/Passive configura

ARP load sharing

We are planning to set up HA in Active Active mode.  The boxes sit in separate locations with Layer 2 network between them.  Currently our guest Network site on our second PA-2020 with our LAN on the first.  Wer had to put the guest Network on second

Empty Reports, What a I missing?

I am new to the PaloAlto world, and admittedly somewhat overwhelmed at the moment. I am working with the reporting features and not getting even close to the results I expect. Particularly when I run a "User Activity Report", I get a 5 page PDF and a

Process to change to HA from cold spare

The HA documentation states that one should start with a 'clean slate' when implementing HA. I currently have one PA-500 in production on 4.1.4 and another PA-500 as a cold spare. The production PA-500 has 2 unused traffic ports that can be used for

top bandwidth usage

is there a way to fined the top bandwidth usage in PA 4.1.x in the exact moment that i need , because usually i have to wait for 15 minutes to get it from the ACC.bandwidth

How to disable url update failure message

Hi All,

We don't  buy URL License on our PA-2020 with PANOS 4.1.8, but we receive many url update failure message on PA-2020. Is there any way disabling url update?

Thanks.

Joy,

failed admin login attempt NOT recorded in system log

During a routine test,  we found out if failed attempt login with the admin name as root via ssh or console will not record to system log, but failedd  attempt login with other name via ssh or console will record to system log.

Question regarding unknown application behaviour

Lets say you configure a rule with:

Application = Any

Service = Custom Service (TCP port 12345)

Now when the AppID engine cannot match anything I guess it classifies the traffic as "unknown-tcp".

Will the traffic be allowed (because unknown-tcp is part o