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User Guide for Cisco Security Manager 4.4
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Chapter 12 Introduction to Firewall Services
Managing Your Rules Tables
Tip If a column type is not listed, then combined rules must have the identical content in those cells
except for the Description cell. Rules that have different content for the cells are not combined.
Step 5 Click OK to generate the combination and display the results in the Rule Combiner Results Dialog Box.
Analyze the results and evaluate whether you want to save the combinations. You must save all or none,
you cannot pick and choose which combinations to save.
For more information on evaluating the results, see Interpreting Rule Combiner Results, page 12-25. For
an example, see Example Rule Combiner Results, page 12-27.
Step 6 Click OK to replace the original rules in the rules tables with the combined rules.
Combine Rules Selection Summary Dialog Box
Use the Combine Rules Selection Summary dialog box to define the parameters used for combining rules
in firewall rules policies. When you click OK, the combination results are displayed in the Rule
Combiner Results Dialog Box, where you can choose to save or discard the results as explained in
Interpreting Rule Combiner Results, page 12-25.
Navigation Path
You can combine rules from the AAA Rules Page, page 15-10 and the Access Rules Page, page 16-9.
Click Tools located at the bottom of the tables and select Combine Rules.
Field Reference
Table 12-4 Combine Rules Selection Summary Dialog Box
Element Description
Policy Selected Shows the policy selected and the scope. Local indicates the local
device rules. Otherwise, the field indicates the name of the shared
policy and the scope selected within the policy, if any.
Rules to be combined The rules you want the tool to consider combining:
• All Rules—Consider combining all rules within the selected
policy.
• Selected Rules—Consider combining only those rules you selected
in the policy before starting the tool.
For detailed information on selecting rules before running the tool, see
Combining Rules, page 12-22.