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GP: Internal Host Detection Two Questions

In the PAN video I located on Internal Host Detection (see below), it shows where to enable this feature. But it doesn't mention what is expected of the IP Address and Host Name. Should one use the internal IP/name of the PAN? Or something else? 

And

Serial number does not exist when registering PA-820 FW

Hi,

Anyone encounter a problem of getting a "serial number does not exist" error message when trying to register a PA-820 FW?

We originally had the tac decommission one of our previously purchased 820 fw's as it was misplaced when relocating building

Online Practice Lab Available ?

Dear Team,

Is there any tool or webbase  online tool available for practice of PA firewall with lab manual

if any one have then share it accordingly

Thanks

Lost sessions with Wildfire active

Hello everyone,

Currently, I have 2 FW model 5220 active/active version 9.0.12.

When I have Wildifire activated I have seen that I have session losses and incomplete sessions.

Can anyone help me? I have not seen any known BUGs

Regards.

How to configure SNMP v3 in firewalls for Solarwinds

Hi,

Wish to configure SNMP v3 for Solarwinds in our firewalls. So we have a Solarwinds devices and Palo Alto firewalls. 

Wanted to know what all information(Data) required if solarwinds to be added in palo alto firewalls, how to set up a communication

User format not consistent

We have a strange inconsistency with our users traffic sometimes showing in our FW logs sometimes as organizationdomain.com\username and sometimes as orgdom\username. Every now and then they also just register as no user at all.

I haven't really been

PACKET BUFFER SIZE

Hi Team,

Kindly let us know how can we find out the packet buffer size of the VM-300 series PA firewall.

DNS packets in drop stage, but i can see the same packet in transmit stage and DNS server response as well.

Hi Community

I am seeing a strange behavior with DNS traffic. I tried to resolve some FQDns which work fine (those are public fqdns). But when I do the packet capture, I can see the same packets in transmit and drop stage. By comparing the tcp port a

PAN-DB API for URL Re-categorization

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I could only find some posts from 2014.

Is there an API for PAN-DB that allows for automated submissions for URL re-categorization?

Thanks in advance!

Microsoft Failover Cluster node not sending out Gratuitous ARP requests after a failover

This was a particularly odd issue which I had never experienced before so I thought it’s worth blogging about it.

During a normal MS Failover Cluster failover operation, the node calming the cluster roles sends out a GARP request to notify the network

Download error: Problem with the local SSL Certificate

Hi,

While pushing software to firewall getting error "Download error: Problem with the local SSL Certificate", on one of firewall. not using any custom certificate yet.  what could be issue of this ?

Transfer finished course from personal Beacon account to partner Beacon account

Hi,

Does anyone know if its possible to transfer the courses you have completed in your personal Beacon account to your Partner Beacon account?

I finished a bunch or courses before starting my new role as Network support engineer and would like to mo