Delay in SNMP response time on PA-7000 with random timeouts

• SNMP monitoring tool reports high number of SNMP polling timeout when monitoring PA-7000 series firewall 
• SNMPWALK takes a long time to complete 
• Slow SNMP response observed 

• PA-7000 series firewalls
• SNMP
• PAN-OS 10.1.12 or prior
• PAN-OS 10.2.8 or prior
• PAN-OS 11.0.3 or prior
• PAN-OS 11.1.2 or prior 

• Software Issue

1. The issue is resolved under defect PAN-222188
2. Issue has been fixed in the newer PAN-OS versions (10.1.13, 10.2.9, 11.0.4, 11.1.3 etc)
3. Upgrade the PAN-OS and apply the newly introduced CLI command to apply the fix on the PA-7000 firewall

PA-7080> debug snmpd async on
This will cause snmpd to restart, proceed ? (y or n) y
True

       3. Verify the snmpd async set to true

PA-7080> debug snmpd async show
True