Feature Request List

[Remo]

Hi community

In a lot of topics there are discussions and questions about PAN-OS enhancements and missing (not yet implemented) features. So far the PaloAlto Feature Request list isn't available to the public but in a lot of these existing topics feature request IDs (FR ID) are mentionned. Even knowing that PAN-OS is already a feature rich firewall operating system, there is always room for improvement, so I thought it might be helpful for others (and myself) to collect these existing public available FR IDs and summarize them in one topic.

ID	Description	Additional Information/Workaround	Implemented in
130	Filter Logs by Adress Groups	-	-
204	Automatic rollback to last "good" configuration	-	-
241	SMTP authentication in Email server profile	-	-
339	Add negate function to all security policy columns
776	increase custom report limit beyound Top 500	Also in FR ID 1636 and 1693	-
889	Mac Address as match criteria in security policy	-	-
913	Preview response pages directly in the WebUI without having to download them	-	-
919	Support for ICAP (Internet Content Adaption Protocol)	-	-
986	Custom Reports for System logs	-	-
1172	Ignore usergroup from User-ID	-	-
1225	Participation of PA firewalls in Spannin Tree	-	-
1370	URL column length limit in Reports	-	-
1696	Include Interface IP in SNMP MIB	-	-
2153	Terminal Server Agent for Linux	-	-
2287	Different ACLs for https, snmp, ...	-	-
2666	VRRP Support for clusters between PA and other devices	-	-
2924	Optain Global Protect IP from DHCP Server	-	-
3051	User Activity Report Enhancement (detailed web-browsing statistics including time spent)	-	-
3060	DHCPv6 client support	-	-
3495	Custom reports for system Logs	-	-
3591	/31 subnetmask support for HA1 link	-	-
4035	Dedicated Log category for Global Protect	-	-
4443	Support for USB modems (3G/4G/5G ...)	-	-
4454	gray out policies with expired schedules	-	-
4507	Show current interface bandwidth in a dashboard widget and log over time.	-	Not a dashboard widget but throughbut statistics and other device health metrics are implemented in PAN-OS 8.1
4603	Concurrent GP VPN session limit per User	-	-
4669	Generate system log upon schedule end	-	-
4670	Proactive notification for policies with soon expiring scheduled	-	-
4788	Block emails based on domains in "to", "cc" or "bcc", also log these in addition to only "to" and reply with smtp 541 when blocked	-	-
4920	Display SFP, SFP+ and QSFP serial number	-	-
5000	SCEP Server integrated in the firewall	-	-
5078	per-IP Traffic shaping	-	-
5357	Global Protect Agent Uninstall Password	-	-
5612	Automatically disable and remove policies with expired schedules	-	-
5678	Log the TLS version of websites and enable reporting about this	-	-
5686	DHCP Client Class-ID Setting	-	-
5844	BGP SNMP monitorings	-	-
6186	Log and report search keywords	-	-
6548	Customizable SMTP Response for Vulnerability Protection	-	-
6609	Add "Threat Email" to email subject when something malicious was detected and also log "cc" and "bcc"	-	-
7365	DHCPv6 Server support	-	-
7654	Support of DIPP with non-strict recognition by devices (Cisco ASA like)	-	-
7832	User-ID for Azure-AD authenticated users	-	-
9113	Integrated addressobjects for well-known cloud services	-	-
9195	OCSP stapling support for inbound decryption	-	-
9285	Custom configrable MFA integration	-	-
9509	DoH (DNS over HTTPS)/DoT (DNS over TLS) Support for DNS Sinkhole Feature	-	-
9522	App-ID for DoH (DNS over HTTPS) / DoT (DNS over TLS)	Custom App-ID for DoH	-
9563	Configurable Time when Global Protect Captive Portal Notification should be shown	Captive Portal Notification Delay	GlobalProtect 4.1
9958	Azure Information Protection (AIP) Tag support for Data Filtering	Release Notes Content Version 8129	PAN-OS 8.0 starting with Content Update 8129
10173	Automatically open browser when Global Protects a Captive Portal and opens a configurable website	Automatically Launch Webpage in Default Browser Upon Captive Portal Detection	Global Protect 5.0.4 starting with Content Update 8181
10931	use logd disk space (33%) for elasric search in Panorama	Panorama disk space allocation	-
11012	Windows Server 2019 Support for User-ID Agent	-	User-ID Agent/PAN-OS 9.0.2
11153	Completely remove Global Protect 4.0 Design out of Global Protect 5+	-	-
11211	Forced Global Protect network rediscover after IP change	-	-
11251	Panorama High Availability: MFA using SAML (Okta)	-	-
11524	Use FIB for route monitoring instead of gateway of the route itself	-	-
11763	Include the username in the csv with the URL logs when running a user activity report	Download thelogs directly from the URL logs	-
11764	Allow for more "User Activity Report" customization - pie charts, different bar charts, color, tables, etc.	-	-
11765	WebUI Color/Theme changes (Dark mode)	already possible with some browser extensions (or maybe even directly in the browser) by modifying the css	-
12264	Reporting based on HIP match failures, specially which failed items	-	-
12783	Log E-Mail links forwarded to Wildfire	-	-
13046	Support gMSA accounts for User-IP-Mappings	-	-
13414	Negate source User	-	-
15246	Import/Export ACC and Dashboard Widgets.	-	-

So far I found a few and I'll try to update this topic regularly. If you also know about existing requests, please write them here.

Regards,

Remo

[Brandon_Wertz]

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@dsebalj wrote:

Hi all,

Here's the list of FRs submitted to PA:

NSFR-I-29197 - Share config objects between Panorama Templates:
Description:
I would like to have better support for using Panorama templates and template stacks so you can truly build your configuration like pieces of puzzle, referencing objects from other templates (something like we have for device-groups). For example, as of now, if you have one template where you define all of your interfaces (e.g. Network Baseline) and have another template where you would like to configure things like management profile, IKE gateways, etc. (anything that needs a reference to an interface), it is not possible without configuring "dummy" objects in a relevant template and than overriding things on the template stack level, which is a bit cumbersome.

It would be nice to have a "true" inheritance between the templates so you can combine multiple things from various templates to build the necessary configuration for the firewall.

NSFR-I-29198 - Automatic certificate selection for embedded browser:

Description:
Problem is when a user is redirected back to the SP (Palo Alto), since this communication is not controlled via GlobalProtect (instead, the GP's handler is waiting for the control to be passed back by the external browser), a user is prompted for the certificate. This could be suppressed by implementing Edge policy "AutoSelectCertificateForUrls), but there are other issues with this approach and it's just a workaround for what should have been available/implemented within the embedded browser.

Let me clarify further, by looking at the webview2 API reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.web.webview2.core?view=webview2-dotnet-1.0.35... - there are:

1. CoreWebView2ClientCertificate
2. CoreWebView2ClientCertificateRequestedEventArgs

These two classes should provide exactly what is needed here. Since the GP config knows about the OID we want to use, instead of prompting user for a certificate (default webview2 behavior), it should lookup for the OID from the client configuration, lookup the certificate store and make automatic selection.

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@dsebalj -- For your first one I would look into Strata Cloud Manager and their config "snipits" I think they're called.  I understand what you're talking about and can see it's value.  I'm just not sure Palo is going to put engineering time against it.  While there's always going to be a need for an on-prem manager solution to support FedRamp Palo is really pushing customers to their cloud/SCM solution.  Which I think in a year or 2 will probably be a strong alternative to Panorama.

[dsebalj]

@Brandon_Wertz I see your point Brandon and it's a valid one. On the other hand, I believe Palo should continue to develop/enhance their products as long as they don't reach the EOL/EOS.