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Active/Passive Firewalls w/Different ISP Default Routes

I have two PA 5220s running active/passive and HA but connecting to dual ISPs. In a failover situation the passive firewall would assume the active firewalls default route but physically has a connection to the backup ISPs gateway not the active ISPs. How do I configure this active/passive config to allow the passive firewall to route to the bac...

Resolved! Newbie in need of help: Forwarding traffic logs to a syslog server

Hi community, I need to forward all traffic and threat logs to a log collector. I understand most of the process except the security policy part. Once I create a syslog server profile and then a log forwarding profile, I then need to use that log forwarding profile in my security policy. Our firewalls have many rules and my only instructions hav...

Active sessions across inactive vwire

Just curious about what I'm seeing. I have two interfaces that are in a vwire. The switch interfaces which go to the the FW were shut down last week yet looking on the firewall, I see that there are still active sessions which show these two interfaces as the ingress and egress points. These sessions would have been established before the inter...

Resolved! Incorrect Rule Assignment UrlCategory Any

External ipaddress 23.35.182.93 is getting incorrectly mapped to a rule "Permit Intranet Sites". The rule uses a Urlcategory for Intranet sites and the destination has trust/untrust zones with a negate on one specific destination address. What might cause the firewall to misapply rules if the dns to ipaddress mappings are effectively static? I a...

Getting intermittent unknown UDP traffic logs

Hi All , I am having policy having application group and set services as application default . Sometime policy is working fine but sometime its dropping packet and in logs showing application unknown UDP. Could you please suggest any troubleshooting steps here ? I did packet capture but not seeing any this specific which can indicate any issue...

Resolved! Fresh install on Ubuntu via apt won't login (ERROR CHECKING CREDENTIALS)

I've just followed the instructions (https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/minemeld-articles/manually-install-minemeld-on-ubuntu-16-04/ta-p/253336) for setting up a fresh install of MineMeld on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (on Azure, in this case). Followed every single step, including the reboot at the end. All of the services show as being in a RUNNING s...

Resolved! can 2 interfaces have same security zone at the same time?

Will Firewall let me configure same security zone to 2 interfaces but make a decision to egress the traffic based on the route table? TIA.

Resolved! Adding Routes via Windows

Hello, I'm attempting to add routes via cmd using the 'route' command but I'm encountering issues, none of my traffic is being passed by the gateway. My intent is for a host (10.10.3.22 in this example) to egress out of R1 (10.10.3.250) to another network on 10.10.2.0. Checking my firewalls logs at R1 (10.10.3.250), I see no traffic even being t...

TCP Session Stuck and only manual clear of the session id solve the issue

Dear Community, we are facing a strange behavior with a tcp flow that is meant to mount a volume on a linux server, from time to time, the session get stuck in the firewall causing an error while trying to mount the device, the topology is as follow: Linux Server <-> Firewall 1 <-> Firewall 2 <-> Script Server the Script server...

Resolved! NTP server

hi guys, i am lookin to config PA 5220 as a NTP server for my lan network, this whole network is completely off of internet.is it possible to config if yes what are the steps.I tried keeping the Primary and secondary NTP fields blank, but if want to broadcast the PA local time on my LAn network, am unable to find further config settings.Does any...

Resolved! HA config sync only manually possible: Commit not synchronized

Hey. I enabled HA active-passive on a new 3220-pair. HA1a & b, HA 2 & HA backup are green and working fine so far. I can also do a manual sync, which works fine. In HA config i enabled config sync. The failover works fine too, as i tested it. But it seems, there is no HA auto running-config sync to HA-peer. In dashboard (High Availabili...

BYOD Decryption

Has anyone been succesful in using decryption on a network where most computers are not on the domain? I am working at a school where all students are bringing their own devices so we cannot push decryption certificates through group policy.Thank you

I can't see sufficient information on OpManager Dashboard

Hi everyone,yesterday we've installed OpManager in our company to monitor VPN Users of GlobalProtect,i've fully turned on everything on SNMP Side but somehow i can't see some of performance monitors like Active VPN Users,Active VPN SSL Tunnels,VPN Tunnel Traffic In and Out etc..Btw the device is PA820.So let me add my dashboard and an instance o...

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Web Security Gateway and PaloAlto NGFW

Hi If I have a palo alto firewall as a core firewall, should I still use a web gateway for internet access. I have all subscriptions. Thanks

Resolved! dedicated HA interface

Hello, I would like to ask if there is some way to take a packet capture in ha dedicated interfaces I know how to do it in management interface and data plane interface but not found information about how to see the traffic in this interfaces, thak you in advance.