Having issue with management profile to be applied to Outside (public) interface.

[B.Alimov]

We have /24 public ip allocated to the main office. So we have pretty wide range of pubic addresses to use while testing configuration.

I have been configuring Palo Alto firewall for new migration project. 

Currently managing Palo Alto through dedicated management port. 

I have setup management profile to allow: HTTPS, SSH, PING only.

Want to access management interface remotely while I'm not at the office. I have assigned one of available public ip address to interface assigned to external zone.

And here is weird issue occurring  unless if I'm not missing fundamental settings on Palo Alto.

So when I access management interface from our public IP address range no issues and these 3 ports (mentioned above) are accessible. However when I try to access outside of our public IP address range it is not accessible for example from my home.

I have not setup any management access restrictions on profile.

I'm stumbled at this point and need help if anybody has better experience.

Thank you very much.

[reaper]

There's a couple of things that might be the problem, but let's address a more important thing first:

Do not set a management profile on an external interface 😉

It's better to take a little bit of time to set up GlobalProtect for example, and set up a secured connection to your firewall to manage it. This is much more secure than having your management exposed for people to try and break into

[K.Ladesuyi]

Do you have a security policy allowing access from your home internet to the publicly reachable IP on the firewall? outside zone to outside zone in this case?