Cisco Systems Filtering the Rule Table

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Chapter42 Configuring Filtering Services
Filtering URLs and FTP Requests with an External Server
•Click OK to close this dialog box.
•Click Apply to save your changes.
Step8 To modify a filtering rule, select it and click Edit to display the Edit Filter Rule dialog box for the
specified filtering rule.
Step9 Make the required changes, then click OK to close this dialog box.
Step10 Click Apply to save your changes.
Filtering the Rule Table
To find a specific rule if your rule table includes a lot of entries, you can apply a filter to the rule table
to show only the rules specified by the filter. To filter the rule table, perform the following steps:
Step1 Click Find on the toolbar to display the Filter toolbar.
Step2 Choose the type of filter from the Filter drop-down list:
•Source—Displays rules based on the specified source address or hostname.
•Destination—Displays rules based on the specified destination address or hostname.
•Source or Destination—Displays rules based on the specified source or destination address or
hostname.
•Service—Displays rules based on the specified service.
•Rule Type—Displays rules based on the specified rule type.
•Query—Displays rules based on a complex query composed of source, destination, service, and rule
type information.
Step3 For Source, Destination, Source or Destination, and Service filters, perform the following steps:
a. Enter the string to match using one of the following methods:
– Type the source, destination, or service name in the adjacent field.
– Click the ellipses to open a Browse dialog box from which you can choose existing services, IP
addresses, or host names.
b. Choose the match criteria from the drop-down list. Choose is for exact string matches or contains
for partial string matches.
Step4 For Rule Type filters, choose the rule type from the list.
Step5 For Query filters, click Define Query. To define queries, see the “Defining Queries” section on
page 42-12.
Step6 To apply the filter to the rule table, click Filter.
Step7 To remove the filter from the rule table and display all rule entries, click Clear.
Step8 To show the packet trace for the selected rule, click Packet Trace.
Step9 To show and hide the selected rule diagram, click Diagram.
Step10 To remove a filter rule and place it elsewhere, click Cut.
Step11 To copy a filter rule, click Copy. Then to move the copied filter rule elsewhere, click Paste.