126 Protection policies
Annotating policies and events
■
Click
Protection Policies
>
Clone
>
Edit
>
Auto Update Rules
.
2
In
Add Auto Update Rule
, do any or all of the following:
■
In
Category
, choose a category from the pull-down list.
■
In
Protocol
, choose a protocol from the pull-down list.
■
In
Severity
, choose a severity from the pull-down list.
■
In
Confidence
, choose a confidence from the pull-down list.
■
In
Apply Blocking
, choose whether to enable blocking by clicking the
checkbox. The Add Auto Update Rule dialog sorts the rule table, and
first displays rules with blocking enabled, followed by rules without.
3
Click
OK
.
Note:
You can configure policies to include active blocking rules and LiveUpdate
rules, so that when LiveUpdate adds new signatures, the blocking rules will be
created automatically. To do this, you must define at least one blocking rule in
the policy so that blocking is enabled. See also
“Enabling or disabling blocking
rules”
on page 123.
Note:
EngineUpdates trigger the sensors to restart automatically when you
apply them.
See also
“Updating Symantec Network Security”
on page 269.
Annotating policies and events
The Network Security console provides a way to take notes on events at the
following three levels:
■
Annotating an entire policy
■
Annotating an event type in a policy
■
Annotating an instance of an event
Annotating an entire policy
The Network Security console provides a way to make a note about an entire
policy via the Network Security console. Then when you hover the cursor over
that policy in the policy list, your note appears as a tool tip.
To make a note about a policy
1
In the
Policies
tab, do one of the following:
Summary of Contents for 10521146 - Network Security 7120
Page 1: ...Symantec Network Security Administration Guide...
Page 12: ...12 Contents Index...
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Page 110: ...110 Populating the topology database Adding nodes and objects...
Page 158: ...158 Responding Managing flow alert rules...
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Page 242: ...242 Reporting Playing recorded traffic...
Page 268: ...268 Managing log files Exporting data...
Page 316: ...316 Advanced configuration Configuring advanced parameters...
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Page 338: ...338 SQL reference Using MySQL tables...
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