Report an Issue From the GlobalProtect App for macOS

Connect to the GlobalProtect portal or gateway.

Launch the GlobalProtect app by clicking the system tray icon. The status panel opens.
(
Optional
) If you are logging in to the GlobalProtect app for the first time, enter the FQDN or IP address of the GlobalProtect portal, and then click
Connect
.
(
Optional
) If multiple portals are saved on your app, select a portal from the
Portal
drop-down. By default, the most recently connected portal is pre-selected from the
Portal
drop-down.
(
Optional
) By default, you are automatically connected to the
Best Available
gateway, based on the configuration that the administrator defines and the response times of the available gateways. To connect to a different gateway, click the gateway drop-down.

Open the GlobalProtect app.

Click the GlobalProtect system tray icon to launch the app interface.

Report an issue from the GlobalProtect app from your endpoint.

After you launch the app, click the hamburger menu on the status panel to report an issue to your administrator.

Select

Report an Issue

.

Enable the GlobalProtect app to run diagnostic tests and to include diagnostic logs. Both diagnostic and troubleshooting logs are collected and sent to Cortex Data Lake as a compact troubleshooting report.

After the diagnostic tests are successfully completed, the GlobalProtect debug log files are uploaded to Cortex Data Lake from your endpoint.

If you do not enable the app to run diagnostic tests and to include diagnostic logs, only troubleshooting logs are collected and sent to Cortex Data Lake as a compact troubleshooting report. The GlobalProtect app checks for the report files (pan_gp.trb.log or pan_gp_trbl.log) that are automatically generated in

.json

format. A notification message appears if no issues were found in the troubleshooting logs. Click

Retry

to check if the pan_gp.trb*.log files exist.

Select the

Run Diagnostic Tests and Include Diagnostic Logs

check box.

Click

Continue

to allow the app to create a troubleshooting log and to send the report to your administrator’s Cortex Data Lake instance.

The results of the end-to-end diagnostic tests are stored in the pan_gp_diag.log file in

.json

format and sent to your administrator’s Cortex Data Lake instance along with the pan_gp.trb*.log files.

The results of the end-to-end diagnostic tests are stored in the pan_gp_diag.log file in

.json

format and sent to your administrator’s Cortex Data Lake instance along with the pan_gp.trb*.log files. The GlobalProtect app can run diagnostic tests with a tunnel or without a tunnel. For example, you might want to enter your GlobalProtect login credentials prior to the app connecting and running diagnostic tests through the tunnel.

A message pops-up, confirming that the app is running diagnostic tests only if you selected the

Run Diagnostic Tests and Include Diagnostic Logs

check box.

Click

Close

to confirm that the app successfully sent the report to Cortex Data Lake. This confirmation message displays the date and time when the report was processed and sent.