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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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Errors with Cosutm Reports

Hi Guys,Since I have upgrade to 3.1.6 (December 2010), the PA-500 is unable to run Costum Reports longer than 1 week or last 7 days, I downgraded to 3.1.5 but this does not work. Right now I have version 3.1.6, an every time I try to run a Custom Report longer than "Last 7 days" It shows me "Communication %20 fail". Is this a bug on the PANOS or...

Blocking MP3's with file blocking/data filtering - how?

We tried using the 'MPEG' file type and file blocking, but this doesn't do the job (in fact it only seems to block MPEG video's, not MPEG-3 audio). We also tried creating a data filter with "MP3HASH" as a regular expression, but this didn't appear to match MP3's either.How can we successfully block MP3's using data filtering or file blocking?

IPS Default Protections?

I need a techincal answer for default protections with PAN IPS enabled. If possible, think in a CP-to-PAN conversion. I know...apples to oranges. TIA - Jeff

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Control android and other smartphones

I managed to use the setup for blockin iphone/ipad trafic. https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1503Some questions... How do we do this for other smartphones?And is it possible to control this with IP range for instance? Or other methods?Thinking about allowing it on some locations and drop packets on other?I have not been successful on th...

oddmbjer by Not applicable
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URL Block Question

So I have a need to block almost all internet access for a certain group of folks. They are in a warehouse and only need access to a few websites (time clock, shipping sites, etc) related to their jobs. How I'm doing this currently is to use a Active Directory policy and forcing a non-existant proxy server and then using the exceptions list to ...

What is Trusted CA Certificate used for?

According to the PA-3.0_Administrators_Guide.pdf:"Trusted CA certificate—Import an additional intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificate to trust when doing SSL decryption. If the firewall encounters a certificate that is not signed by a trusted CA, then it uses its own untrusted CA to sign the certificate and generate the expected brow...

rps by L3 Networker
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Custom URL not working

Hi,I have a PA2020 system with Custom URL category defined and it was working fine on 3.1.4.When we upgraded to 3.1.6, the Custom URL category was not working and URL present in the custom category were being blocked, even if they were in the allow list.We have deleted and re-created the Custom Category, but same issue.Has anyone of you experien...

vinesh by L2 Linker
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manage PAN device over a WAN, you might experience problems

Problem:If you try to manage PAN device over a WAN, you might experience problems.By manage, I mean via the Web interface, via CLI or via Panorama.The Web interface may not load Or login via CLI works fine. However a command that returns a lot of data will fail. One good example is "show log system"Or "Failed to establish SSL connection to Panor...

pnotpub by L1 Bithead
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Resolved! Using LDAP/AD names for firewall GUI login

HiI believe I've successfully set up LDAP authentication in our Palo device. All of our groups and users are appearing when searched for using "show user ldap-server server all" and they show up in Authentication Profiles when changing the Allow List.I have added my user account from our AD domain into the LDAP Authentication Profile as detailed...

SMB URI Filtering (Custom Applications)

I'm wondering if it is possible to define an 'application' based on an SMB URI path?Example - I have two shares on a SMB SAN server \\san\public and \\san\secret; is it possible to apply a firewall rule to a Palo device that sits between this server and clients such that access to the shares can be restricted based the destination path, not just...

apackard by L4 Transporter
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SYN Flood

hi : I have a question in regard to Flood Protection Thresholds under Zone Protection. Do the thresholds for Alert/Activate/Maximum apply to counting SYN packets directed at a partuicular host or to counting SYN packets directed at all the hosts in the protected zone.The online documentatio specifies "destination" which implies a particular IP w...

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Checkpoint FW-1 Telnet Authentication - PA Alternative?

HiWe will be installing 2x PA4050s into our datacentres to replace our current Checkpoint Alteon Switched Firewalls. We use Checkpoints "telnet authentication" on TCP port 259 to allow super users access through the firewalls based on their IP address at the point of authentication. Is there anything similiar that we can do in PA-land to replica...

fmd by L3 Networker
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Since update to 3.1.4 no ssl decryption

We have some user categories with "no decryption" but the default rule "decrypt".Before updating from 3.1.3, https://secure.eicar.org/eicar.com.txt was blocked reliably. Since 3.1.4 not. Nothing else was changed.In fact i cannot see any ssl decryption on my PAN 2050. Is there a way to troubleshoot the issue?

mhuels by L3 Networker
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