Pros vs Cons with PAN?

I guess it would be a bit biased to ask for Pros vs Cons of PAN in the supportforum of PAN  but I recently stumbled upon an article (which I wish to share) regarding PAN which I think might be of interrest for most of us in this forum:

http://www.cym

Reports based on Specific Departments

Hi Guys,

Is there any way on the Palo Alto Firewall and Panorama to generate a Custom Report based on Departments from an Active Directory.

For example; me as a user Kal is a part of the Technical Department.  Will it be possible to have a report on so

User identification not working properly

Hi,

we are facing the issue that the user identification is not working properly.

I am running PAN OS 4.1.4 on a PA-200 device and User-ID-Agent 4.1.4-3 on a Windows 2008 R2 member server.

The UI agent is connected to both the DCs (Windows 2003 servers

Connecting a videoconference to PAN without using NAT

Hello All,

I have this small question here that I hope can find answers or suggestions.

Currently we have a videoconference unit that was connected to the internet via NATting in the PAN ? I am wondering if there is a way to make it non-nat by connecti

application vs url categories dependencies

I want to allow access to Twitter, but block all other social-networking services.

The obvious approach is to allow the Twitter application and then have a rule blocking the social-networking category for web-browsing and ssl, but this doesn't work, T

Need help. Is PAN a forward proxy?

Hi All,

I am confuse if Palo Alto is a forward proxy? Can PAN protect forward proxy server?

Google Docs Phishing Issues

So I dont know if its just us but we are getting hammered with phishing requests to google docs web sites. The latest is:

https://docs.google.com/a/smps.k12.ok.us/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdKTFpTcW5KVVF1UGxJTFJ0aF9UdHc6MQ

My URL Filter wont block

PA 5050 Shadow Rule Error

Hi all,

I am configuring PA 5050 and populationg the security policy rule base. While i am making ule bases , and during commit , i am geting the error message that the Rule3 (suppose rule 3 ) is shadowning Rule 4 in the sequence. I am getting this e

User ID agent / User-IP-Mapping issue

Hello,

I have simple request: created access rule based by group.(and this part looks clear and working to me). Problem that i can make User-IP mapping to work correctly. With desktops i do not see any issues because their users do not change mostly a

PA-2050 commit frustration

Hello,

We have 2x PA-2050 devices in HA running 3.1.10 and I'm frustrating about commit time, it takes like 5-10 min.

Can I expect significant improvement, commit time speaking, with upgrade to 4.1.5 ?

Field experiences in commit time with 4.1.5 ?

Or sho