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Resolved! Active-Passive HA failover and Preempt disabled

I have an active passive pair: PAN01- Passive , device priority 50, Preempt- disabledPAN02- Active, device priority 40, Preempt- disabled Now I wanted to switch the priority i.e. to make PAN01 active and PAN02 passive. I changed the priority on PAN02 to 60 and committed configuration, but it remained active and PAN01 remained passive. I had to s...

Resolved! Dual ISP - Will not activate dual default gateway routes

I just installed a firewall for a customer last night and it absolutely refuses to activate the default route for both ISPs in the virtual router. Only 1 will go active at a time. The intent is to just use route monitoring and use the primary ISP unless it goes down. The primary ISP static default route is created with a route monitor.The back...

Why Destination NAT is not working for internal users.

Why Destination NAT is not working for internal users. Why need to create U-Turn NAT if we have existing Destination NAT created and if internal users want to access it.

Identify the user account while using RDP on desktop

Hi,This is just an query, so that I can understand this topic better. Bear with me, since I am not a network specialist.EnvironmentUser works remotely on a laptop and uses GlobalProtect VPN client to remote in on a desktopThe desktop is located in the office, which allows the user to RDP in on it from any location outside the officeThe desktop i...

Multiple IKE crypto profiles on individual interfaces for multiple IPSEC tunnels

Hi, In 2021 we ran into the issue where it seemed between PA-OS 8.1.x and 9.0.x/9.1.x Palo began either via a feature or bug introduced began enforcing the scenario in the subject line and began dropping tunnels after upgrading and causing issues with HA pairs. Define IKE Crypto Profiles (paloaltonetworks.com) At the time Palo identified the abo...

Resolved! software update for PA-820 without support contract

hello all,my organization has a PA-820 at a branch location that's been a little neglected. it doesn't have a support contract and it's currently running panos 9.0. I would like to upgrade this at the very least to 9.1, but I'm having difficulty locating the image online to do the upgrade manually. anyone have a link to the software repositories...

Is it possible to DDoS/DoS a public IP which has only outbound traffic and ipsec tunnel. No DNAT configured and ping disabled.

Resolved! MFG part numbers confusion

Hello all,Is there an official document from Palo Alto that lists their MFG part #'s?For example if I'm looking to purchase a 1 year subscription for my 3220 stand alone firewall I need to know the license part # to purchase. The frustrating part is that different websites list different MFG for the same product and its confusing. For example on...

Multiple IPSec tunnels, single external IP

Looking to set up a POC with a PA-820 that has the followingIPSec VPN site-to-site between our local facility and 3 partner networksSingle external IP, 3 tunnels (IKE P2)NAT to a single host on our local private networkIs this reasonable/possible?

Resolved! Default PANOS for PA series

Hello, Anyone have the ideas how to check online what is the default PANOS which ship with PA series FW?I have PA-3220 ordered last Nov and it will arrive soon.Many thanks,

details logs traffic report generating issue

I'm trying to fetch report custom for traffic details log ,but it not generating .summary logs report for traffic is generating. pan os version 9.0.9-h1 .PA-3250 model.

Failed exporting config bundle via ssh

Failed exporting config bundle via ssh to servername.com /tmp/pan/pano_name_20220106.tgz: No such file or directory..Killed by signal 1..' It was working, but suddenly has stopped. "Test SCP server connection" works and drops the test file in the correct location. Scheduled Config Export job fails with the above error however. Any ideas on how...

Resolved! Installing a new cert

For Global Protect I currently have a server cert on my PAN 3220. When i imported it it had the entire chain - root, intermediate and the server cert. That server cert is now nearing expiration. I gave our cert manager a CSR from the PAN and I now have the new .PEM formatted server cert with longer expiry and the chain which includes the root an...

PRISMA SD-WAN

Is Palo Alto dropping support for PRISMA SDWAN? A lot of the older but detailed CG branded docs are gone, but there are no new Palo Docs to replace them? I'm interested in implementing the Cloudblades, and all the site links take me in a loop of marketing material, and explanations of how great it is, but I can't find one doc that even list ...

Where do you get additional threat feeds from

Hello All,Just curious as to what additional threat feeds you use to ingest into your PAN. Here are some of the ones we use:Threat intelligence blocklistshttps://talosintelligence.com/documents/ip-blacklisthttp://rules.emergingthreats.net/fwrules/emerging-Block-IPs.txthttp://panwdbl.appspot.com/http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/drop.txthttp://www.spa...