Maximum sessions for Captive Portal

Hi Guys,

On a PA-500, is there any specification for the maximum number of sessions or user logins at any given point of time for Captive Portal users?  Enquiring because, there is a known environment (school with boarding as well) (staff and student

PAN Agent stability

Hi All,

Is there anybody meets PAN Agent stability issue?

We always install PAN Agent version 3.1.2 on Windows Server 2003, but at lease tow customer meet the issue.

PAN Agent service is down once 1to3 weeks

No advnaced log can be found no matter debug i

PAN - DHCP option

Hi All,

I'm working to configure the PAN (4.1.2) DHCP, hopefully to replace the legacy DHCP server for the LAN.

My LAN consist of both data and voice on few vlans.

I would require to insert the dhcp option code of 176 & 242 for the ip phones.

But doesnt

Http-proxy application and applications in URL Filtering log

Hellou!

I have installed Palo (in tap mode) in front of MS TMG proxy.  In attachment I put a picture with the applications he recognizes. Http-proxy application is always the application with the most received bytes, but Palo also recognizes other app

ThreatID 33542 and Facebook

I'm seeing a lot of alerts in the last couple days for threatID 33542 when users are visiting facebook via http://www.facebook.com/

Could this be a false positive?  Anyone else seeing a jump in this threat?

Tnx, Tom

Data Filtering Patterns

Does anyone know the logic used to interpret data patterns/filtering expressions?

By this I mean, if I have two patterns:-

Confidential\\Eyes-Only     (exact match Confidential\Eyes-Only)

and

Confidential\\.+               (wildcard match Confidential\*)

Difference between session start vs end when doing DENY

The difference (generally speaking) between "log on session start" and "log on session end" (for ALLOW rules) is that the "session end" will also log application and trafficvolume however it will not show up in the log-files until the session really

Large User-ID Deployments

All,

We're in the process of migrating from a WCCP Proxy implentation for URL filtering to the Palo Alto solution (LOTS of work needs to be done obviously!) and we're starting to work with the User-ID Agent and have some questions..

First, I'm curious

Custom Block Page

Hi

I'm finding it really difficult to upload a customised url block page. Each time I do it only the default page appears. Out of around 20 times of uploading the edited txt message (custom block message) it's only ever updated to the new message on

CNSE Review Guide

Has anyone have any idea what kind of topic you will be asked? Want to start reviewing for this certification.

thanks

Palo and TMG

Hello

I have a tmg box at the moment that publishes our web sites, can i still leave that still setup and point the palo at the tmg for the web sites we publish? or how do i do that with the palo in place.

Mark

Office 365 App Detection

Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans or a method how to detect Office 365 traffic?

We have no URL scanning license on the box, so we depend on the App detection method.

Because all traffic is a SSL connection, PaloAlto reports the traffic as gene

No IP addresses on HA interfaces

Hi all,

I'm working for a new company building out several new data centers. They got a jump on getting things up and running before hiring their own resource and had a consultant setup a couple of pairs of PA-2050s. They are active/passive. The consu