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Resolved! URL Categorization suddenly failing as not-resolved for Google search URLs

Is anyone else seeing sudden failures in URL categorization for Google searches? Starting within the last hour or so we are seeing intermittent blocks as not-resolved for search URLs, but not for the Google homepage or any other websites (that I have

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Resolved! Automatically blocking IP's after a certain number of Global Protect pre-login failures?

I've just recently started getting blasted with Global Protect portal pre-login failures, coming from a bunch of illegitimate IP's. They all fail because I use certificate authentication and the client cert is not present on the attacker's device. I

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Advanced Routing - NAT for overlapping networks between 2 logical routers

Hi,

We have a Palo VM with advanced routing enabled.

We have 2 customers with overlapping networks (172.16.0.0/24). Those networks must be accessible by the same servers (in connected network 10.1.1.0/24).
Customer1 network is routed via a static

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Humps and bumps with the Palo Alto firewall integrated User-ID agent and Active Directory.

Introduction

The User-ID agent links an IP-address to a user account. It enables identifying your users so that they show up in the logs and you can use them in rules. One can choose between the integrated agent or install the Windows edition. Proble

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Windows User-ID agent not collecting mapping

I'm working on getting a Windows User-ID agent set up for a customer and it's not collecting logs. Checked all permisssions and service account user is in Event Log Readers and has permissions to both the install folder and registry entries. Just a

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Route-Based VPN between PaloAlto & Strongswan

Hi!

If anyone have some experience about this topic? I need a vpn between our PaloAlto and a virtual machine with strong swan installed. To route some traffic from our local network to this vpn tunnel. How to make this possible?

Monitor Power Supply of PA-400 by SNMP

Is there a way to monitor power supply redundancy by SNMP?

I found this, but these values are not a SNMP object.

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClbfCAC

similar to this; these values don't exit on my PA-440.

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Resolved! VPN Phase 1 Not Synchronized between HA pair

Hello guys,

Sorry if this topic has been already discussed before but I could not find an answer.

I would like to know why phase 1 is not synchronized between HA pair. Is there a particular reason ?

Thanks

Resolved! Palo Alto SNMP Item meaning

Hello,

i'm doing snmp polling to firewalls and need to know the throughput for the interfaces. Am i right to think that Interface out counters (ifOutOctets.n, 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.16.n) and Interface In Counters (IfInOctets.n, 1.3.6.1.2.2.2.2.1.10.n) ar

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