General Topics

User Information in Firewall Database Cache

1: Captive Portal is set for entire network ( 192.168.1.0) and in Active Directory the group ( IT) is choosen which will be filtered or monitored. There are

two users ( user1/user2) who are member of this group.

Firewall Rule :
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1:  Trust

PA-4000 series and agg/dual links

Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade my company firewall (PA-2050) to one of the PA-4000 series to be the internet gateway for all our US sites.  Anyone here is using PA-4000 with aggregate links with Cisco switches?  I'm thinking to have aggregate links for bo

UIA / PAN Agent to Firewall Communication

Hello,

Looking at the User Identification with PAN-OS 2.1 Tech Note rev00E 03/09, I can read :

"The User Identification Agent must have IP connectivity to the firewall management interface.
This is true even if the firewall is managed by an inline, Laye

Why is UIA agent not aging-out entries?

Hello,

I'am using the UIA agent 3.1 with AD, and i noticed that the number of mappings is always growing. The netbios probings are disabled. I want to know how the 45 min age-out work, and under what condition it is re-initialised. Seeing the growth o

Safe search document

Hi, I am trying to download the attachment from here https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1399 and it is corrupt. I have tried this on a few different computers and it is always the same corruption. Is it possible to upload this file to the sup

Extract SSL-VPN Installer 1.1.0

Hello everybody,

is it possible to extract the PANInstaller.msi for the 1.1.0 Version,
like in the 1.0.2 Version.
We want to deploy the clients manually!

Kind regards
Christian

Alarm Led on 3.1

Hello,

I've got an upgraded 3.1 PA2020 following a factory-reset and everytime i boot the system, the alarm LED lights red and stays on

there are no errors in the system log and the unit isn't in HA.

can you advise whether it;s a critical error and how

Forcing Safe Image Searches

I read through the document regarding the creation of a custom application for Google image search, and it works most of the time.  I am curious though if Palo Alto has any plans to add this kind of functionality for all of the major search engines a

Looking for information regarding

Threat ID 12544, I would like to know what are the characteristics for that threat ID located within the Spyware Category. The Item is listed as Win32.Conficker.C  p2p

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, since I belive that this is a false po

Automated configuration exports

Is there a way to perform a scheduled (weekly) configuration export. I can manually ssh to the device and run: scp export configuration to user@hostnamr:E:/Backup/pabackup from running-config.xml (the problem here is that it asks for a password and i

configuration

hello,

How to delete one configuration ?

How long do URL override codes last?

If I setup a policy using a URL filtering profile that uses override for at least one or more categories, once the user enters the override code, what are the exact rules that then apply?

For example if I set "shareware and freeware" to "override" and

Is the e-directiry agent 3.1 able to authenticate communications with clients?

Hello,

We are planning to use the XML API. And i noticed that it requires an ssl communications between clients and the agent. I want to know if the agent is able to authenticate communication with client. And if not, is there any plan to implement th