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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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Resolved! Panorama HA Pair and Managed Log Collectors Upgrade Process - Clarification

Hello All, Planning an upgrade of a Panorama HA pair in management-only mode with two dedicated log collectors to PAN-OS 11.1.x from PAN-OS 10.2.x To assist with the explanation below: Unit A - Panorama Active Unit Unit B - Panorama Passive Unit First, after reviewing the upgrade documentation (Upgrade Panorama in an HA Configuratio...

nohash4u by L3 Networker
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Resolved! Palo Alto in Virtual Wire mode : Traffic not passing throught internet perimeter Firewall

Dear All, I'm doing POC at customer who use Checkpoint as Internet Firewall. So i deploy Palo Alto behind Checkpoint firewall in vwire mode. After We configure and install policy everything running well and to minimize the risk we configure permit all any any in the bottom of security policy. At the end of the PoC we try to disable the Permit ...

Migrate config from Sophos UTM9 to Palo

hi, I need to migrate a Sophos UTM9 FW. It has proxy config, nats, LDAP integration, policies........... to Palo Alto firewall Is there any tool to migrate Sophos to Palo. Expedition not support Sophos 😞 any idea? thanks

BigPalo by L4 Transporter
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Resolved! Panorama API ServiceNow integration, getting Hit Counts

Dear Community We try to get out the hit counts from the API connection between Panorama and ServiceNow. Is there someone in the community who has experience where the hit counts can be read out? Within the API documentation, we were not able to get more details. We are able to read the whole rules, their object groups and also the objects. Bu...

Sectigo Root CA Trusted Store Request

Greetings, Sectigo has (recently) updated their Public Root Certificates (mid-2025), introducing new roots including: - RSA: Sectigo Public Server Authentication Root R46 KB Articles for reference: https://www.sectigo.com/knowledge-base/detail/Sectigo-Root-Certificates https://www.sectigo.com/knowledge-base/detail/Sectigo-Root-Certificates ht...

L.Yalezo by L1 Bithead
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Resolved! Custom URL Category Configuration Verification.

Is anyone able to confirm this for me by chance? I'm trying to do some testing, but being able to find independent confirmation would be a nice comfort to me. In a Custom URL category list, is an entry like:abc.com/ equivalent to:abc.com/*? Thanks!Thanks!

"Bugs" on Syslog Field Descriptions documentation PAN-OS 11.1+

I found a lot of "bugs": typos, missing fields, unstandarized naming, etc. in the Syslog Field Descriptions documentation PAN-OS 11.1+ All the inconsistencies are documented in https://github.com/enotspe/palos/blob/main/EDGE_CASES.md Hopefully Palo Alto team will correct it

enotspe by L0 Member
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Ground Stud: Who Needs 'Em, Really?

Many devices seem to come with a Ground Stud on the back (ground cable not included, of course). It just occurred to me that I can't think of a single time I've seen this used. So... I'm not very electrically-inclined... I couldn't explain 3 phase power, and I still can't wrap my head around the difference between watts and volt-amps (seeing ...

locampo by L2 Linker
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Question about ECH and its effect on URL filtering (without decryption) + how to block it

Hi team We have received reports from users regarding URL filtering behavior and are investigating whether ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) is the cause. In our environment, we cannot apply SSL decryption, so we rely on inspecting the SNIin the ssl_client_hello. In Wireshark captures of the TLS ClientHello, we see the extension “encrypted_client_hel...

Alpalo by L4 Transporter
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Avaya ports Blocking

Hello, We recently installed Avaya UCS and are currently using the Avaya Workplace application. For this setup, we configured the required security rules on our Palo Alto Networks PA-440 firewall. However, we are experiencing an issue when applying specific ports in the security policy. We tested the following scenarios: Security Rule Config...

Wildfire False Positive on Detection of .XLSX extension

Wildfire False Positive on Detection of .XLSX extensionfrom Feb 24th,2026. In our organization started receiving wildfire alerts as information severity for the office extensions files for example. .xlsx files. hash value : 6e81b1b3fc08fb5f481d8882caeeafdf89f1c054abc71d4645da25f6b1ac516bclean as per analysis and sandbox analysis also clean leg...

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