Request to Palo Alto to add internal scripting options like Linux/Unix crontab/cronjob etc.

[nikoolayy1]

Hello Palo Alto,

I have seen many issues where the customer needs to restart the managment server service because of a memory leakage bug and having the option to schedule a command like "debug software restart process management-server" (https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClaGCAS ) or the web processes (''debug software restart process web-server'' or the others in article https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000POIHCA4 ) or other such tasks will be nice. I know this can be automated with the REST-API/XML-API but having the option locally to do basic scripting and scheduling of those scripts/commands will really help and it will be much faster. Something like a cronjob or even having the option to trigger a pcap capture when a specific log message (system or traffic etc.)is seen will be awesome.

[kiwi · Accepted solution]

Hi @nikoolayy1 ,

For feature requests I recommend that you reach out to your local SE.  The SE can have the FR created for you and add your vote to it.  Once you have the FR# you can ask for support here and have other people reach out to their SE and have their votes added.

Cheers !

-Kiwi.