Dial-Out connections to Palo Alto Networks services are hard-coded and region specific. AIOps for NGFW ingests these metrics to gain insights into the state of your PAN-OS devices.

For more information about the information stored and sent by Palo Alto Networks, review the PAN-OS Privacy Data Sheet.

Dial Out Connections are sent at intervals of 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 1 day. Palo Alto Networks send subscriptions sent by OpenConfig to the AIOps server, the OpenConfig plugin will automatically use streaming telemetry connections. You can also generate commands on-demand to get an immediate response from the OpenConfig plugin.

The logging, config, and reporting models are used to generate telemetry data to send to AIOps.

You can view the active subscriptions by navigating to DeviceOpenConfig in the Subscriptions field. The following image shows an example based on the default configuration set by Palo Alto Networks.

Each connection may have multiple queries attached to one connection.