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Chapter5 Managing Policies
Managing Policies in Device View and the Site-to-Site VPN Manager
Policy names can contain up to 255 characters, including spaces and special characters.
Sharing Multiple Policies of a Selected Device
With one procedure, you can share multiple policies configured on a particular device. When you
perform this procedure, you can choose to share all the policies configured on the device or only some
of them. For example, you can take all the firewall service policies defined on an ASA device and share
them.
Initially, the resulting shared policies are assigned only to the device from which the procedure was
performed. However, you can then assign these shared policies to additional devices as required. See
Modifying Shared Policy Assignments in Device View or the Site-to-Site VPN Manager, page 5-46.
This feature provides a convenient way to take the policies configured on a single device and use them
as a template for configuring similar devices. For example, after you discover the devices at your branch
offices, you can take all the local access rules that you have configured on a similar device and share
them with a single procedure so that you can assign them to the branch office devices.
Tip You can use this procedure to make all policies on the device shared policies and then create a policy
bundle from those shared policies. This policy bundle can then be used to quickly configure new devices
based on the template device.
Tip To create a new device of the same type that shares the same configuration and properties (including
device operating system version, credentials, and grouping attributes) as the source device, create a clone
of the device. For more information, see Cloning a Device, page 3-54.
Related Topics
•Understanding the Device View, page 3-1
•Copying Policies Between Devices, page 5-31
•Sharing a Local Policy, page5-38
•Unsharing a Policy, page5-40
•Working with Shared Policies in Device View or the Site-to-Site VPN Manager, page 5-34
•Filtering Items in Selectors, page 1-42
Step 1 In Device view, do one of the following:
•Select Policy > Share Device Policies. The Share Policies wizard opens at the Share Policies from
this Device page (step 1). Select the device whose policies you want to share and click Next.
•Right-click the device and select Share Device Policies. The Share Policies wizard opens at the
Select Policies to Share page (step 2); you can click Back to go to step 1 and select a different
device, if desired.
Tip You can also right click a device in Map view and select Share Device Policies.