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I am setting up my lab PA-200 for Wildfire.  I had a question about the monitoring logs.  I understand that using the Wildfire portal, you have to configure the global settings of what meta information to send to the Wildfire servers to see that info.  (URL, src-dst IP, username, etc)

If you have the subscription is this information still sent?  Since all of the data is local I am not certain that it would be necessary to send that metadata to the cloud in order for the local firewall to still log the metadata.  Does anyone have a definitive answer on this?

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I think these settings are part of statistics over at PaloAlto but also replicated into the email you get sent (along with the online report) once a malware is found.

Simply to make it easier for you so you dont have to login to your PA-device to find out these values.

So if you doesnt send these values into the cloud and have a wildfire subscription I think you can find these values manually by digging through your wildfire log in your PA-device.

Just to clarify:  If I have a security policy that prohibits the disclosure of things like internal IP, username, etc. then what I was wondering if the potential malware payload would be sent to Wildfire cloud, information returned, and the metadata re-associated with the original file.  I am guessing that metadata would not really need to be sent in order to correlate the Wildfire payload with the logs but I am looking for clarification.

Hopefully someone from PA could reply to your question - I simply dont know 😞

However if you are sensitive of which data you send into the cloud you could join the feature request (which I know exists because I have sent one myself 🙂 of an in-house wildfire (that is you get/buy one or more appliance box(es) at your own datacenter to perform the analysis and by that the data never leaves your datacenter).

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