Understand the "Block Private Key Export" option with three scenarios

The firewall uses a certificate with the role of CA Certificate of Authority to perform SSL Decryption for outbound traffic.

There are three methods to generate this certificate.

1. Method 1 : You can use a self-signed certificate. The firewall w

"The Block Private Key Export" option - Strange Behavior

I read the following explanation about the "The Block Private Key Export" option :  You can permanently block the export of private keys for certificates when you generate them in or import them into PAN-OS or Panorama.

I tested this option for the

Preempt behaviour in HA

Hi all,

As per palo alto documentation if we enable preempt in HA then primary palo alto will reclaim its active position if it comes back. Does this reclaim works on complete device failure or for any monitoring link/path failure also.

What's mean minus value and rate in global counter?

What's mean minus value and rate in global counter?
Does anyone know?

BGP route is not present on the other region

This is the representation of the connectivity of my setup.

Inside each region have Palo Alto firewall and Silverpeak appliance. 

On each region, between Palo Alto and Silverpeak there is ibgp that been configured. AS number is the same.

On the fire

Forcing/Redirecting IP addresses to use name

Hi All, happy new year.

Is there a way to block or forcing/redirect incoming traffic to an ip address. I would like to block outside attempts from trying to access the network using the ip address instead of the hostname/url.

Appreciate any suggest

Palo Alto and Microsoft NLB multicast

Hi

I have an issue to contact the VIP of our Microsoft NLB.

We have a cluster of 2 PA-1410 (active/passive). On this cluster, I configured interface aggregate with sub-interfaces with ID vlan (ex :vlan10, vlan 50, vlan193..). Each IP of the interfa

DNS-Base traffic

Hello Fellow Members,

Have been going through the ACC tab and noticed some rather abnormal traffic, have traffic that well beyond 800TB, and at times goes beyond 1000TB(1PB), is this normal given that fact I am looking at internal traffic (intrazon

30 day trial license activation

Hello,

i started my trial license yesterday and wondering if i can register it? 

When i go under software update, it says "The device is not found or not registered, please try after some time".

When i try to create a support account it wants from

URL filtering database updates problem

I have a feeling that the URL filtering database updating doesn't work correctly. After a reboot of the firewall it update a few days and then stops. In the URL filtering logs I also see a lot of "not-resolved" even for url's like play.google.com. I'

Wildcard certificate-GPVPN certificates

Just imported new wildcard cert for firewall management GUI as the existing one is expiring soon. Certificate first imported to Panorama then pushed to Primary & Secondary firewalls (Active-Standby). Certificate is showing valid for Panorama but not

High Disk Space Usage on /opt/pancfg partition

Hi Mates,

I am getting alerts on /opt/pancfg utilizing 90%. 

How ever I deleted the old, downloaded software and dynamic updates (around 1.5Gb file) but still space utilization is same as 90% using below KB.

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com

License expired within 1 year, need to activate with recent date

Hello,

We have a firewall whose license has expired for a year. we need to reactivate it but with a recent date (for this year), and not counting from the expiration date . how to proceed in this situation?

Regards,