Whitelisting IP Addresses

[Evan-Amerio]

I am trying to whitelist some IP addresses. I added the IPs to our allow policy in the URL category section. Is there anything else that I should be doing? The purpose of this is to allow our printer providers servers so our printers can communicate with their servers. Thank you!

[Arnesh · Accepted solution]

Hi @Evan-Amerio 

Are you referring to the destination address field and not URL category?

If you are trying to allow just the IP addresses, you can add the IPs to the destination address column similar to what is see in the screenshot instead of the URL Category. URL category is manly used for the predefined URLs categories, custom URL categories, to match the website URL trying to be accessed.

If you have multiple IPs, you can leverage the EDL feature on PaloAlto as well. Refer below links to understand EDL.

How to configure EDL (External Dynamic List)

URL Filtering - Dynamic Block List - External Block List EDL

Regards,