How are service routes used in PAN-OS?

The correct answer is D. To route management plane services through data interfaces rather than the management. Service routes in PAN-OS allow management-plane services - such as DNS lookups, NTP synchronization, syslog forwarding, software updates, and WildFire submissions - to be routed out through a data plane interface instead of the dedicated management interface. This is useful…

Submitted by amina.ke· Apr 18, 2026Device Management and Services

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ABy the OSPF protocol, as part of Dijkstra's algorithm, to give access to the various services
BTo statically route subnets so they are joinable from, and have access to, the Palo Alto Networks
CFor routing, because they are the shortest path selected by the BGP routing protocol
DTo route management plane services through data interfaces rather than the management

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B
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C
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D
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Explanation

Service routes in PAN-OS allow management-plane services - such as DNS lookups, NTP synchronization, syslog forwarding, software updates, and WildFire submissions - to be routed out through a data plane interface instead of the dedicated management interface. This is useful when the management interface lacks connectivity to required external services, or when an organization's security policy requires service traffic to traverse a specific data interface. Service routes have nothing to do with dynamic routing protocols like OSPF (A) or BGP (C), and they do not function as static routes for user subnets (B).

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#Service Routes#Management Plane#Network Configuration#Data Interfaces

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