Fortinet 463 FortiWeb 5.0 Patch 6 Administration Guide
Policies
The Policy menu configures policies and protection profiles.
You can configure most protection features and traffic modification at any time. However,
most features will not be applied until you include them in a policy that governs traffic
(either directly or indirectly, via protection profiles).
See also
•Supported features in each operation mode
•Matching topology with operation mode & HA mode

How operation mode affects server policy behavior

Policy and protection profile behavior and supported features varies by the operation mode.
(See also “Supported features in each operation mode” on page 62.)
Table 42:Policy behavior by operation mode
Operation mode
Reverse Proxy Offline Protection True Transparent
Proxy
Transparent
Inspection
Matches by • Service
• Virtual server
Virtual server’s network
interface, but not its IP
address.
V-zone (bridge),
but not its IP
address.
V-zone (bridge), but
not its IP address.
Violations Blocked or modified,
according to profile.
Attempts to block by
mimicking the client or
server and requesting to
reset the connection;
does not modify
otherwise.
Blocked or
modified,
according to
profile.
Attempts to block by
mimicking the client or
server and requesting
to reset the
connection; does not
modify otherwise.
Profile
support
• Inline protection
profiles
• Auto-learning profiles
• Offline protection
profiles
• Auto-learning profiles
• Inline
protection
profiles
• Auto-learning
profiles
• Offline protection
profiles
• Auto-learning
profiles