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KPS
New Member
February 25, 2019
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Managing many firewall policies / rules

  • February 25, 2019
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Hi!

 

I want to use a fortigate-cluster as segmentation firewall with many rules. It will be more than 700 rules.

 

Is there any possibility to use some "structure" in the ruleset?

 

Other vendors offer:

- Queues with jumps

- Policy-groups

 

 

The only thing, i found is the "search" field an to strictly use a naming convention - e.g. in the "comments" and/or "name" field

 

How do you handle this?

 

Thank you for your hints

KPS

    4 replies

    Markus
    New Member
    February 25, 2019

    Hi In the Gui there are some definde "Policy Groups" (From Interface to Interface) per default. You can also generate own Sections in the Policy Tab of the Gui. Best regards

    KPS
    KPSAuthor
    New Member
    February 25, 2019

    Hi Markus!

     

    Thank you! I have not been aware of that feature.

    Is there a possibility to search for "Where is this object used", too?

    Dai
    Explorer
    February 25, 2019
    Hi Most object pages in the GUI can have a column added to show References. Clicking on these hyperlinks will show you which policies and other objects reference each other. Also it may be helpful for color-code function. [link]http://ur2.link/R6ye[/link]
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