topic Re: Looking for Rule Groups in the firewall policies. in General Topics

Looking for Rule Groups in the firewall policies.

jhickey — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:17:18 GMT

Other firewall vendors provide the ability to group rules together based on whatever criteria you want. I find this very useful in organizing an often confusion rule base. Any plans to add this ?

Re: Looking for Rule Groups in the firewall policies.

mikand — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:19:41 GMT

I think there already are feature requests regarding this. But it would help if you too could contact your Sales Engineer to file this as another feature request.

As a workaround you can write a custom "tag" (comment?) on each rule and then filter rules based on tag.

But I too would prefer to be able to group rules and by that also be able to compact/expand each group (like a [-] and [+] sign) and give each group a custom name. This way if you have shitloads of rules you wont need to stare at all of them at the same time.

Another workaround is to manually order your rules by dstzone or similar to make it easier to locate rules when there is no current way of grouping them (other than using the "tag" method).

Re: Looking for Rule Groups in the firewall policies.

jhickey — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:56:29 GMT

Thats what I expected. Thanks for the reply. I will mention it to my rep. The + - on rule groups is a necessity. Tags are ok but it's not the same.

Thanks,

Justin

Re: Looking for Rule Groups in the firewall policies.

dpenhall — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:43:56 GMT

I agree with this as well. With 1000+ rules it can be complex to manage a rule base. We migrated our rulebase from Checkpoint which was nicely order and group and the last 6 months on the PA it has been difficult to find existing rules if not TAGed. NAT rules do not use TAGs either so if you have a lot of them its even harded.

We have already asked for this as well through the correct channels ( as well as other usability features ) so hopefully something will be in coming releases.