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Article Id 352231
Description This article describes how to get the signatures for OPC on Application Control Security Profile when these are not available under Application and Filter Overrides.
Scope FortiGate
Solution

OPC is an industrial communication standard that is being used for data exchange between multi-vendor devices.

There are cases when it is needed to allow or block specific signatures related to this standard using Application Control, but these signatures are not available to be used.

The default Application Control Profile looks as follows:

 

Application Control View.PNG

 

These signatures are part of the Industrial Category, which is not available as seen on the previous image.

Searching for OPC will not return the desired outputs:

 

OPC Override.PNG

 

First, it is required to perform the following change on the device to get the Industrial Category under Application Control:

 

config ips global

set exclude-signatures
none No signatures excluded.
industrial Exclude industrial signatures.
set exclude-signatures none

end

 

After this change and refreshing the page, the Industrial Category will be visible under Application Control:

 

Application Control after the change.PNG

 

The OPC signatures will now be available:

 

OPC Override After.PNG