Policies that the interzone rule is in.

Policy

You can click a policy name to enter the page for managing the policy's rules. See

 

Rule management.”

 

 

Return to Interzone policy application management functions.

Firewall device management

Managing firewall devices

With the management right on devices, you can add or delete devices, view the detailed information of the devices, and change the device groups and labels of the devices.

If the system cannot discover some firewall devices automatically, you need to add these firewall devices to the firewall management component manually so that the Firewall Manager can collect and display the attack event statistics and event auditing information of these devices.

Configuration guide

From the navigation tree of the firewall management component, select Device Management under Device Management to enter the device management page, where the managed firewall devices are listed, as shown in Figure 87.

Figure 87 Firewall device management page

On the firewall device management page, you can view information about a firewall, or add or delete a firewall. Table 95 describes the functions in detail.

Table 95 Firewall management functions

Function

Description

Firewall device list

Allows you to view information about the current firewall devices.

 

 

Adding firewall devices

Allows you to add the firewall devices managed in the system

management component to the firewall management component.

 

 

 

 

Allows you to delete firewall devices.

 

Follow these steps:

Deleting devices

1. Select the check box before the firewall devices that you want to delete

 

in the firewall device list.

 

2. Click Delete.

 

 

 

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