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Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.
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Post a discussion here if you have general questions regarding configuration and troubleshooting for Palo Alto Networks products. Use this forum to collaborate with like-minded security professionals to improve your security posture.

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How and Why to Accept a Solution to Your Post

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JayGolf by Community Team Member
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Port Scan/Host Sweep settings...

What is everyone using for their Port Scan/Host Sweep settings in the Zone Protection profile?

Mine are at...

TCP Port Scan

5 secs

800 events

UDP Port Scan

5 secs

800 events

Host Sweep

2 secs

200 events

...I may have to fine tune it some more to lower the amoun

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jambulo by L4 Transporter
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Users With Two LDAP Accounts

Hi All,

Our domain administrators have two Active Directory user acounts; a standard 'username' for normal day-to-day tasks, and a 'username_a' for administrative work.  Occasionally, PA will pick up the '_a' account when checking group access instead

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sclarke by L0 Member
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How to configure Captive Portal NTLM auth?

I have a customer who has AD and is using the UserAgent sucessfully.

However, many users are not always logged in, or are using corporate hardware, so aren't logged in.

I want to configure Captive Portal for non-logged in users that uses NTLM to authen

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User-ID Detection fails after install a second Terminal Server Agent

After installing 10 terminal server agents and 1 PAN-agent on a PA-2050 the appliance cannot connect to any agent.

admin@mi2-pan2> show user pan-agent statistics

Name             IP Address      Port    Vsys        State             Users  Grps  IPs   

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mhuels by L3 Networker
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Resolved! Multiple categories in Brightcloud

I've come across a few websites, when I run the URL in Brightcloud, can contain anywhere from 2 to 5 categories.

When a URL has multiple categories in Brightcloud, which one does Palo Alto Networks choose?

Here is a good example.

www.coffeed.com (coffee

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Deploying SSL decryption with Public CA

I am trying to figure out how to deploy SSL decryption. I have it working in a test environment using an in house CA and by importing the cert. into my browser. As we have Firefox users and can't export the Trusted Root CA with a GPO, I am looking fo

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IPSec Tunnel to Windows Server

I have learned, PAN will only build route based and not policy based IPSec tunnels.

We need encrypted communication between several Windows Server 2008 systems in the outback and a lot of them in the central office. Till now, we build a site-to-site V

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mhuels by L3 Networker
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User Identification Agent

Hi,

I have a question concerning the User Identification Agent.
Yesterday we had  a problem with wrong user identification. The problem is solved in the meanwhile  but it would be nice for me to understand how the agent works.

To solve  the wrong identi

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Virus: use of the packet capture

Hi,

  I wanted to know what you usually do when you see a Virus detected on the PA.

  How do you check that it is not a false positive?

  Do you use the packet capture in the case of a virus?

  Does the name/id of the Virus help you to find more details

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Dynamic update sych in HA environment

We have a pair of 4050s in a HA configuration.  I was wondering if there was anyone that has a best practice or advice on setting up the Dynamic update synch. We are looking for the best way to keep the environment up to date through dynamic update w

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Why are new units shipped so out-of-date?

We have purchased eight units (2020s and 4020s) in the past two months and they all shipped with PANOS v3.1.4, no updates of any kind, and an incorrect setting for the URL filering (surfcontrol vs. brightcloud) which requires a full reboot to fix. It

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KGC by L3 Networker
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LDAP Authentication questions

Hi everyone,

when I configure LDAP for authentication,
then I'm getting the groups in the distinguished name (dn) format.
I can choose them in policies and in the authentication profile.

Now my questions,
is the pan-agent then needed for policy authentica

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indevis by L2 Linker
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