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I agree that this would be a nice feature. I ran into an issue a couple of days ago where the VPN link between our PA and a Cisco ASA died after a software upgrade on the PA. I had no way kick start the PA to get it to retry making a connection to the remote site. I had to go into the CLI to do this. Having buttons on the GUI to be able to test the link or reset the link would be handy. I also noticed that the link status never even updated when the link went down, which is concerning. ... View more

Tunnel monitoring sounds like it may do the trick. I am guessing that uses ping to verify the connection is up and then shows status as down once it fails to receive a response for the allotted time? If so, that is something I will test during one of our upcoming maintenance windows. ... View more

That is correct. Will do. Just wanted to see if anyone else had run into a similar issue.     ... View more

All 3 status lights were green even after multiple refreshes. This was 3 hours after the outage occurred. " Whenever a tunnel goes down, the firewall logs these events with a high severity, and we have the ability to send these events to a syslog server. You can get faster alerts of VPNs going down, by using SNMP servers, or through syslog servers, instead of relying on the WEB GUI. " I do not accept that as a proper method of knowing what is going on. If they have status indicators on the web gui, then they should do what is expected of them and properly indicate the status. If it requires some config changes to make it work better, that is fine, but the PA appliance should be able to provide us with adequate monitoring information. ... View more