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A customer wants to deploy User-ID on a Palo Alto Networks NGFW with multiple vsys. One of the vsys will support a GlobalProtect portal and gateway. The customer uses Windows Active Directory for auth

The correct answer is B. Deploy the GlobalProtect vsys as a User-ID data hub. When a multi-vsys firewall has one vsys running GlobalProtect, that vsys receives the most accurate IP-to-username mappings directly from VPN authentication. Designating it as a User-ID data redistribution hub (data hub) allows all other vsys to pull those mappings centrally with

Submitted by femi9· Apr 18, 2026Deploy and Configure

Question

A customer wants to deploy User-ID on a Palo Alto Networks NGFW with multiple vsys. One of the vsys will support a GlobalProtect portal and gateway. The customer uses Windows Active Directory for authentication. What is the most operationally efficient way to redistribute the most accurate IP addresses to username mappings?

Options

  • ADeploy a PAN-OS integrated User-ID agent on each vsys
  • BDeploy the GlobalProtect vsys as a User-ID data hub
  • CDeploy a M-200 as a User-ID collector
  • DDeploy Windows User-ID agents on each domain controller

How the community answered

(44 responses)
  • A
    5% (2)
  • B
    73% (32)
  • C
    7% (3)
  • D
    16% (7)

Explanation

When a multi-vsys firewall has one vsys running GlobalProtect, that vsys receives the most accurate IP-to-username mappings directly from VPN authentication. Designating it as a User-ID data redistribution hub (data hub) allows all other vsys to pull those mappings centrally without deploying separate agents on every vsys. Option A is less efficient because it requires configuring an agent per vsys independently. Option C (M-200) is a management appliance, not a User-ID collector. Option D (Windows agents on domain controllers) collects AD login events but is less accurate than GlobalProtect mappings and doesn't solve the multi-vsys redistribution problem as cleanly as a data hub.

Topics

#User-ID#GlobalProtect#Multi-vsys#User-ID Redistribution

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