Resource List: Firewall management

Resource List: Firewall management

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Created On 03/03/21 02:27 AM - Last Modified 01/17/24 04:21 AM


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The following table provides a list of valuable resources in addressing Firewall Management issues on the Palo Alto Firewall.

Environment


  • Palo Alto Firewalls.
  • Any PAN-OS.


Resolution


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Configuration
Commit
FQDN
NTP   
Syslog 
SNMP
Troubleshooting
Other

In addition, video articles can be found under the additional section at the end.
 

Articles related to Configuration
Cannot Change Admin Password After Sudden Firewall Failure 
How to remove Dynamic tag with register IP address? 
Cannot Access WEBUI after configuring SSL/TLS Service Profile 
How to export config bundles to a replacement SCP server with the same IP address as the failed server 
How To Export a Candidate Configuration 
Where to find a list of command history on the firewall or Panorama? 
How to Retrieve License on the firewall 
How to Configure Static ARP on the Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to manage a firewall with local or overridden settings from Panorama 
Change System Clock Time on Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to configure or change the Master Key on a High Availability (HA) pair of firewalls 
How to Delete an Admin Account From the Firewall Command Line 
How to Configure SNMPv2 on the Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to Configure DNS Proxy on a Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
Getting Started: Setting Up Your Firewall 
How to configure Log Forwarding for LPC on PA-7000 series firewall 
How to Configure a DHCP Relay on Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to Retrieve the Palo Alto Networks Firewall Configuration in Maintenance Mode 
How to Manually Import and Install PAN-OS from the CLI 
Setting a Service Route for Services to Use a Dataplane Interface from the Web UI and CLI 
How to Create Management Users, Assign Roles, and Change Password from the PAN-OS CLI 
How to perform PANOS upgrade from CLI? 
How to Generate and Upload a Tech Support File Using the WebGUI and CLI 
What is a Shadow Rule? 
How to Import and Export Address and Address Objects 
How to create a new service object 
Radius Authentication Failing with FQDN in Server Profile 
How to Configure the Management Interface IP 
How to Configure DNS Proxy on a Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to Add and Verify Address Objects to Address Group and Security Policy through the CLI 
How to view Management Interface Setting in the CLI 
How to create, add and delete sub-interfaces and static routes via CLI on Firewalls managed by Panorama 
CLI Commands to Export/Import Configuration and Log Files 
How to view IP Addresses in an address object via the CLI 
How to Use the CLI to change GUI Access 
Back Up Configuration and Device State from the CLI 
How to View the Management Interface Service Settings from the CLI? 
How to Add and Verify Address Objects to Address Group and Security Policy through the CLI   
How to Create a Management Profile using the CLI  
How to View the PAN-OS or GlobalProtect Version through the CLI 
How to Configure MTU and MSS Settings from the CLI 
How log firewall console output using PuTTY 
How to disable scheduled update for contents from CLI 
Failed to establish connection due to Server Identity check
Articles related Commit Issues 
How to identify the commit failure reasons when no error message is displayed in the GUI. 
Commit Failed Due To “Error: Non digit (Module: device) Commit failed” 
Commit Failing With Error: "exceeds maximal number of app/service 128" 
Commit fails with error message: "Error: Authobj must have auth profile" 
Commit fails with Error: Failed to parse IPSec manual-key tunnel/profile 'OSPF AuthProfile' authentication key 
Commit Warning: Next Hop IP is not in Subnet of Outgoing Interface 
Commit Error Message - Error: Missing service value 
Commit Failing When NetFlow Profile is Applied 
Commit fails with error - Error: application 'ms-ds-smb-base' not found 
GlobalProtect Giving a Warning when Commit/Validate: "tunnel tunnel.x ipv6 is not enabled" 
Firewall Commit Validation Error "group-tag unexpected here" 
Commit Error: Invalid Configuration. Please Fix Errors and Try Again. Commit Failed 
Commit Failed when adding DHCP Relay "Can't get vr id(Module: dhcpd)" 
Auto Commit Failing on an Application not found 
Commit Fail When Next Hop Address List Is Specified in PBF 
Unable to perform commit to Firewall from the Panorama due to new URL Filtering Categories. 
Commit error "Pre-negotiation can only be enabled on HA Active-Passive mode" 
How to clear the duplicate certificate subject found warning when issuing a commit command 
Unable to commit due to plugin validation error 
Panorama Commit Error: “bad template push candidate on disk” 
Why security policies referring to different EDL objects generate shadow warnings on Validate Commit 
How to Check the Status of an Auto-Commit 
Commit failed warning “Fail to count address groups” 
Commit Failure with Error 'any' zone is invalid from rule. 
Commit error: Threat database handler failed, when using custom signatures 
How to View the Configuration Changes or Differences in a Commit 
Why is the ‘Commit’ button showing green when there are no pending changes to commit? 
Can configuration be synchronized between Active and Passive when commit lock is on? 
How to resolve commit failed error : "high-availability -> group -> mode -> active-passive is invalid" 
Validation error for URL filtering while committing firewall configuration 
Device Commit failure with following error "Disk quotas add up to more than 100%. " in MS.log. 
Commit Warning: Disabled Applications in vsys 
Commit error "This config has been sanitized of password data because it was exported by a non-superuser or was part of a tech support export" 
Commit NAT Error: Mismatch of destination address translation range 
Seeing Commit Warnings "Description and Tag missing for rule entry" 
Plugin uninstallation failing with error "Please delete plugin user and commit before uninstalling plugin" 
How to Determine When Auto-Commit is Complete 
PAN-OS Web Interface Shows Not Ready Status and Commits Fail 
Commit Error: Not A Valid Server Profile 
Commit finishes with an error response: cfgpush.s1.dp1.comm.cfg-dp: error pre-installing config 
GlobalProtect Commit Error: missing both client config and satellite config"" 
Can't commit changes due to error message "Error: Profile compiler: cannot find tid 40006 in threat database." 
Commit Failed When 0.0.0.0 is Configured as BGP Router ID 
Do Interface Link Duplex, and Speed Sync Over to the Passive Device on Commit? 
PA-7050 extreme latency on commit after upgrade to 8.1.12 or 8.1.13 
How to resolve commit error "Total NAT DIPP translated IP xxx exceeds the capacity of 800"   
How to revert uncommitted changes on the firewall? 
How to renew a locally generated certificate. 
Validation error commit failed with application-status is invalid 
Post Upgrade Firewalls to 9.1 getting commit error :Disk quotas add up to more than 100% 
Rules that use EDL stops matching after commit is done 
"Threat database handler failed (Module:Device) commit failed" due to missing app and threats content
Article Related to  FQDN 
What is the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Object Limit? 
Unable to Perform Dynamic Updates with updates.paloaltonetworks.com FQDN Address Object 
Reduce FQDN Refresh Timer on Firewall in Order to Prevent Intermittent AWS Connection Outages  
How to forward traffic to a specific FQDN using Policy Based Forwarding   
FQDN objects are failing to resolve when DNS Proxy object is configured 
Commit failing with invalid fqdn format after upgrade to PAN-OS 9.1.1 
Commit Fails Due to Missing FQDN Attribute 
Unresolved FQDNs in Security Policy Result in Shadow Policy Warning During Commit 
Articles related to NTP 
Is NTP Polling Time Interval Configurable? 
Configure Authenticated NTP on Palo Alto firewalls 
NTP Server error : An error occurred.   
NTP Syncing to Secondary Server While the Primary is Available and Connected 
Can all NTP Traffic Going to External Servers be Redirected to an Internal Time Server?   
How to change the time zone from the GUI or CLI 
Do Palo Alto Networks Devices Support Daylight Savings Time?  
Unable to reach the update server  
Articles related to Syslog 
Cannot Delete Syslog Certificate with Error Failed to Delete Certificate   
Connection fails to syslog server 
How to Forward Custom URL Logs to a Syslog Server 
How to Forward Config Logs to Syslog Server 
Articles related to SNMP 
SNMP for Monitoring Palo Alto Networks Devices 
SNMP OIDs to monitor power supply status on Palo Alto Networks firewalls 
SNMP Counter Monitoring 
SNMP Poll Reports Different Memory Usage than show system resources 
Device is Not Responding to SNMP Polls 
What is the SNMP OID for monitoring internal temperature or CPU utilization? 
Incorrect 32-bit counters via SNMP 
SNMP monitoring tools show passive status as down 
Sub-Interface throughput doesn't add up to Physical Interface throughput (SNMP monitoring)  
Unable to poll interface data using SNMP after upgrading to PAN-OS 8.0.14 or 8.1.5  
How to create an SNMP V3 mask for Palo Alto Networks OID 
How to Configure Sending SNMPv3 Traps   
How to Configure SNMPv3 Polling 
What is the SNMP OID for PA-7050 Power supplies? 
How to Find the SNMPv3 Engine-ID 
CLI Command to Display OID IF-MIB::iflnDiscards Information 
Clearing snmpd.log due to log overflow
SNMP sysuptime OID does not return the same values as "show system info"
Troubleshooting Articles. 
How to delete configurations through the CLI 
How to Revert PAN-OS to the last installed software using CLI. 
Admin Users Created via CLI Are Not Shown in Web Interface 
Password hash is different between generated by CLI command and displayed in configuration file 
What Is The Upgrade Path When Upgrading Pan-OS from CLI? 
How to Shut Down an Interface from the Web GUI or the CLI 
How to View Active Session Information Using the CLI 
Error When Restarting the Management-Server Process on CLI 
Explanation of Job Type in 'show jobs all' CLI Command 
Dynamic Updates Display Error after Clicking on Check Now Button 
Backing Up and Restoring Configurations 
How to Upload Core Files Directly to Support 
Unable to Download Dynamic Updates on New PAN-OS Software From Not Enough Disk Space 
What is the difference between running configuration and candidate configuration? 
How to Delete Saved Configuration Files 
FAST-DNS Resolution Issues 
Unable to Connect to or Ping a Firewall Interface 
Firewall not able to fetch the EDL address objects 
Firewall Stuck in Initial (Leaving Suspended State) 
How to Enter Maintenance Mode on the Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
How to Delete Certificates on a Palo Alto Networks Firewall 
Correlation Events are not showing on Panorama from the firewall   
Firewall Automatically Captures Packets in the Traffic Log 
How To Packet Capture (tcpdump) On Management Interface 
Accessing Management Plane and Data Plane Uptime on a Palo Alto Networks Device 
VSYS-Specific Service Routes 
Root Partition is full due to syslog-tmp files in the tmp folder 
Other Articles 
Best Practices for PAN-OS Upgrade 
Disabling weak ciphers for web GUI access is not working 
How to Disable Medium Strength SSL Ciphers for SSL/TLS Service Profile 
How to fix Weak Ciphers and Keys on the Management Interface 


Additional Information


The list below provides a brief video tutorial on the configuration aspects of the Firewall. 
 
Getting Started Video - Setting Up Your Firewall
Video Tutorial: How to Configure Security Policy Rule Tags Descriptions on the Palo Alto Networks Firewall
Video Tutorial: How to Use the ACC Tab in the Firewall
Video Tutorial: How to configure SNMP Settings
Video Tutorial: How to create Role Based Administrators?
Video Tutorial: How to Create Address Objects within PAN-OS Security Policies
Video Tutorial: How to Schedule Security Policies
Video Tutorial: How to Read the Traffic Log
Video Tutorial: How to Filter for Rule Usage
Video Tutorial: How to Create and Configure Tags
Video Tutorial: How to configure AntiVirus Profile?
Video Tutorial: What is Data Filtering Log?
Video Tutorial: How to configure Telemetry
Video Tutorial: How to create a Data Filtering Profile
Video Tutorial: How to enable Security Profiles?
Video Tutorial: How to create a Syslog Server Profile
Video Tutorial: How to configure Log Forwarding
Video Tutorial: How to configure SNMP Settings
Video Tutorial: How to configure Email Reporting

Logging and Reporting articles can be found at Resource List: Firewall Logging and Reporting
Panorama related Resource page can be found here
 


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