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Cato Connect Event: AMA with Professional Services
Ever wish you could get direct time with the experts? On June 3rd, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT, you’ll get just that — a live AMA with two of our Principal Consultants from the Cato Professional Services team. We’ll cover topics like: Designing and implementing a CMA deployment Best practices we’ve seen across real-world environments Your questions — seriously, bring them Here’s how to get the most out of it: Click here to register and get the calendar invite and join us live Post your questions below in the comments — we’ll answer pre-submitted ones first, before tackling live chat during the session + See a question you like? Give it a “like” to help it rise to the top Note: We won’t be able to look at specific CMA instances — demos will be done using internal environments. That’s it — register, post your questions, and we’ll see you there! Presenters: Principal Consultant Professional Services, Italy Principal Consultant Professional Services, USA If you run into any issues, @mention me or email us at community@catonetworks.com
Bypassing Cato via WAN Bypass and Split Tunnel
We need to add around 200 subnets to bypass Cato. My understanding is that they need to be added to all sites under the Site Configuration/Router/Bypass/Destination and for all SDP users via Access/Client Access Control/Split Tunnel policy. We have nearly 90 sites. Manually adding 200 subnets to 90 sites doesn't seem like a good time. Is this possible via the API? If so, can you point me toward the correct commands.Announcement: Introducing Cato Connect's new Idea Hub
We’re excited to introduce the Idea Hub to Cato Connect! This is a space where you can share your ideas, collaborate with fellow members, and vote on suggestions that resonate with you. What is the Idea Hub? The Idea Hub is a forum for brainstorming and discussing ideas that could enhance our products, services, or overall customer experience. Explain your use-case and issue in detail so your fellow Cato Connect members can expound on the idea or even share workaround or solutions. By voting and commenting, we can surface the ideas that are truly important to our community with context and relevant use cases and examples. What happens once an idea is created? The Idea Hub is the beginning of a journey - a starting point for a discussion. Once you have submitted an idea to the Idea Hub, your fellow Cato Connect members will vote and comment on the idea. Perhaps they might even offer a solution or a workaround, or point you to another idea in the Hub about a similar problem to the one you noticed. Each comment and vote creates a more robust story for the Cato Networks Team to discuss, so don't skimp on the details. How Does It Differ from RFEs (Requests for Enhancements)? Idea Hub: A collaborative space for discussion, exploration, and voting on ideas. It’s designed to capture a wide range of feedback and innovation. RFEs: A formal process for submitting specific, detailed enhancement requests - opened by a customer's Cato Networks Representative on their behalf in certain circumstances. By keeping these two processes separate, we ensure that both can operate effectively to meet your needs. Further FAQs can be found here. Thank you for contributing to this new initiative! We can’t wait to see your creativity and insights in action. Stay SASE - Your Cato Networks Team
Area for users to submit and vote for RFEs
Currently the only option to submit an RFE is to contact CATO representative by email and answer a set of template questions. With this method, different users are not aware of RFEs already opened, their status etc. and it is likely they submit similar or the same ideas independently. I would recommend to create an area in this community portal to submit RFEs, review the ones already opened by others and maybe vote for the ones you appreciate. Vote results could be a way for CATO Team to understand what are the needs and expectations of the customers, and maybe prioritize some RFEs over another. RFEs submitted by users could go through a review/approval process first, so CATO Team checks if something similar was already created in the past (to avoid duplicates) or if provided description is complete and enough to start the process.Cato Connect Event: AMA with Professional Services - November 2025
Did you join our last AMA with Professional Services and want more? Did you miss the last one and have been waiting for us to drop more dates? Well your request is our command, and we are back with another event for our customers and partners. We're doing things a little differently this time: First of all, we'll be honing in on specifics around CASB and TLSi, we will even have a short demo at the beginning to help you start using, or get the most out of, your investment. (We'll still take general questions from the audience) The other change is that this time, we're offering ~*options*~ Join us on: November 4th, 2025 at 3pm HKT or November 6th, 2025 at 11am EST During this live AMAs with members of our talented Professional Services team we’ll cover topics like: The latest versions of TLSi and CASB Best practices we’ve seen across real-world environments Your questions... seriously, bring them Here’s how to get the most out of it: Register for the November 4th or November 6th meetings and get the calendar invite and join us live Post your questions below in the comments — we’ll answer pre-submitted ones first, before tackling live chat during the session + See a question you like? Give it a “like” to help it rise to the top Note: We won’t be able to look at specific CMA instances — demos will be done using internal environments. That’s it — register, post your questions, and we’ll see you there! Presenters: Steven Wong Professional Services Engineer Kushtrim Kelmendi Principal Consultant Professional Services, EMEA Martin Guerrero Commercial Sales Engineer If you run into any issues, @mention me or email us at community@catonetworks.comURL - Category over-ride not taking effect?
Is your URL category over-ride not taking effect? When configuring firewall rules by domain you do not need to specify the subdomains. Firewall rules will even cover the subdomains if you specify a Top Level Domain e.g. "uk" would cover all the subdomains such as bbc.co.uk). This is not the case when using domains to override a category though! Category over-ride from CMA for an domain / FQDN applies just to the that domain or FQDN. Any subdomains must be specified with its own FQDN. E.g. over-riding category for http://catonetworks.com to a category of your choice does not change the category for http://www.catonetworks.com Hope you find this helpful. Thanks Nath based on your comment I have added following article that shows how to add a custom app to get around having to override individual domains. Add the custom app in a rule and place it above the rule that blocks the traffic. https://support.catonetworks.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413265662993-Working-with-Custom-Apps Reference Article: https://connect.catonetworks.com/kb/cato-cloud-best-practices/how-to-block-a-tld-top-level-domain-or-a-specific-country/374
X1700 Sockets running 22.0.19219 breaks HA
More of a caution, over the weekend we upgraded our sockets to 22.0.19219. No issues with our X1500's but sites running X1700's in an HA pair caused us some trouble. The HA keepalive no longer works, which was causing traffic to switch between Primary and Secondary sockets. Both sockets are showing as master. Engineering has discovered the root cause and are working on new version of the firmware, but wanted to let you all know in cause you plan to upgrade soon. Sockets can't reach each other via IP, but both sockets are pingable from other devices on the network.
