In Strata Cloud Manager, configuration objects are organized in a folder hierarchy. Objects defined at higher levels are automatically inherited by all folders below them. When you clone an object to a child folder, you create a copy that can be customized for that level.

When you clone a configuration object from a parent folder or snippet to a child folder in Strata Cloud Manager Release 2.0, the system now automatically appends a -1 suffix to the cloned copy. For example, cloning an address object named blocked-ips creates blocked-ips-1 in the child folder instead of blocked-ips.

In previous releases, cloning an object with the same name as the parent object would silently override the inherited object, breaking inheritance and preventing security updates from flowing down to child folders. The new behavior preserves inheritance by default. If you intentionally want to override an inherited object, you must explicitly rename the cloned copy to match the parent object name. This ensures that overrides are always deliberate, not accidental.