Issues with sending Email Updates from Palo Alto Firewall

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Issues with sending Email Updates from Palo Alto Firewall

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A few months ago, I staged two pairs of PA3220s in our Lab at our US HQ Office. These firewalls were staged to support our new Australia and India Offices. I configured Log Email Updates on these boxes so that critical threat/system logs can be sent to our internal email relay server hosted back in the US. Before shipping the Firewalls out, the email alert service was successfully tested, as test emails could be sent just fine when still connected to our HQ Lab via the mgmt interfaces. However, once the firewalls were shipped out and connected back to our internal WAN at these two sites, they began to fail to send email alerts to our relay server.... When running an Email test, I get the following error when running a test email to our SMTP gateway " Connection to (SMTP GW IPv4 Address):25 failed. Failure when receiving data from the peer. " I know that the SMTP Mail relay server is working still as our Panorama hosted in our US Datacenter can still send local email alerts to our mail relay server just fine with no issues.
What has changed from when this last worked:
  • Firewall Source IP Address. (Confirmed reachability from new Mgmt source IP to US SMTP gateway IP).
  • Latency from FW to SMTP relay server ( Jumped from 30-45ms to 180-220ms) due to change in the physical location.
Troubleshooting Steps Completed:
  • I Confirmed reachability from Email Source Interface from these two pairs of Firewalls in Australia and India to our US-hosted SMTP Relay server.
  • I Confirmed Security Rules to allow SMTP traffic.
  • I Confirmed TCP 3-way handshake when running packet captures on the Firewall.
What further troubleshooting can I perform to determine why or how this has stopped working?
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Community Team Member

Hi @Carson1998 ,

 

Were you able to get more information taking tcpdumps or checking the ms-log while testing this ?

Have you tried restarting the mgmt-server process ?

What's the PAN-OS version you're currently running ? I'd make sure you're running a recommended PAN-OS version to rule out any old PAN-OS bugs you might be running into.

 

Kind regards,

-Kiwi.

 
LIVEcommunity team member, CISSP
Cheers,
Kiwi
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