VM-Series-L2 firewall configuration

Hello,

I installed VM-Series as a L2 firewall. My Exsi version is 5.1,. I found the two VM on the same vlan, the same vDS,could not be isolated,  If VM-Series needs port group isolation future?  If so, how can i isolate two vm on the same vlan using V

Content Updates Failing

Hi,

I am trying to update the content (application and threats) on our PA-500 firewall running version 4.1.8-h3. However, this is failing, and am getting the message below. Any ideas on how this can be fixed?

Operation

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Can i block file by file name?

Hi,

so, can i? Eg.: i want to allow upload/download .pdf files, but block "hacker tutorial.pdf" file. How i can do that?

Dynamic Block Lists and IP's

I saw this line in an article about Dynamic Block Lists.

"as our threat team identifies malware, they automatically take any URL or IP associated with that threat and will include it as part of the PAN-DB URL filtering database. "

Does this mean that t

Panorama Template conflicts with base device config

I am in the process of building out my Device Groups and Templates to standardize configurations across all sites. Our sites are standardized in a way that we can actually apply device configurations across multiple sites. After the base templates ar

should Xenapp servers with TS-Agents installed ip addresses be manully excluded from userID agent monitoring?

Had a brief glitch recently on PANOS 5.0.6 where it appears that an administrator perhaps RDP'd (or something similar) to a Citrix Xenapp server which triggered a user-id/ ip mapping and doing so seemed to override the TS-Agent user mapping for exist

URl Filtering Security policies

In URL Filtering Security Profiles, there are a few actions that can be configured for each URL category.

-          Alert – permits access to the category and logs it

-          Allow – permits access to the category, but does not log it

-          Blo

Detecting Data Patterns in Large Files

A question came up in class today in regards to Detecting Data Filtering Patterns in Large Files.  Does the firewall buffer the file being inspected by the Data Filtering Patterns so that it can detect all occurrences of the Data Pattern before sendi

User activity reports

I'm getting a bit of a funny one on my Panorama. When I run a pdf UAR for a user using the "last 30 days" option - I only get the detailed reports on web activity from the 2nd of August till the 16th of August. When I change the date option to the la