Example: Creating category elements for a firewall and an IPS configuration

Company A is a large enterprise planning a new system. The system includes several Firewall and IPS engines. Each Firewall and IPS engine has its own policy. The company’s administrators are only required to manage the Firewall engines and their policies or the IPS engines and their policies at a time. To restrict which engines and policies are displayed, the following steps are taken:

1. The headquarters administrator creates two Categories: one for the elements that belong to the Firewall configuration and another for the elements that belong to the IPS configuration.
2. The headquarters administrator creates the elements that represent the Firewalls, Firewall policies, IPS engines, and IPS policies. The administrator then selects the appropriate Category for each element while defining its properties.
3. The administrators select the appropriate Category as the Category Filter so that only the elements in the Firewall or IPS configuration are displayed.