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User Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.4
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Chapter 6 Managing Policy Objects
Working with Policy Objects—Basic Procedures
Objects can be filtered in the rules tables based on category, facilitating rule maintenance.
For example, you might want to create a network/host object and keep track of its use for administrative
purposes. When you define this network/host object, you associate it with a category. When you view
the access rules table, you can easily identify those rules that use your network/host object. You can also
filter the table to display only those items associated with the category.
Security Manager includes a set of predefined categories. Although you cannot change the colors, you
can change their names and descriptions. The following procedure explains how to change the name and
description.
Step 1 Select Manage > Policy Objects to open the Policy Object Manager (see Policy Object Manager,
page 6-4).
Step 2 Select Categories from the Object Type selector.
Step 3 Click Edit Object to open the Category Editor dialog box.
Step 4 Modify the names and descriptions of the predefined category objects as required:
Label—The color associated with the category.
Name—The category name. Names can have a maximum of 128 characters, including special
characters and spaces.
Description—Additional information about the object (up to 1024 characters).
Step 5 Click OK to save your changes.
Cloning (Duplicating) Objects
An alternative to creating a policy object from scratch is to clone, or duplicate, an existing object. The
new object contains all the attributes of the copied object. You can then modify the name and all
attributes as required.
Cloning is useful for creating objects that are based on predefined objects that cannot be edited.
Related Topics
Working with Policy Objects—Basic Procedures, page 6-9
Step 1 Select Manage > Policy Objects to open the Policy Object Manager, page 6-4.
Step 2 Select the object type from the table of contents.
Step 3 Right-click the object you want to duplicate and select Clone Object.
The dialog box for that object type appears. The Name field contains the following default name for the
new object: Copy of name of copied object. The remaining fields contain the same values as the copied
object.
Step 4 Modify the name of the new object and its configuration, as required. Click the Help button for
information specific to that type of object.
Step 5 Click OK to save your changes.