Create and Apply Tags
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Create and Apply Tags
Use tags to identify the purpose of a rule
or configuration object and to help you better organize your rulebase.
To ensure that policy rules are properly tagged, see how to Enforce Policy Rule Description, Tag, and Audit Comment. Additionally,
you can View Rules by Tag Group by first creating
and then setting the tag as the Group tag.
- Create tags.To tag a zone, you must create a tag with the same name as the zone. When the zone is attached in policy rules, the tag color automatically displays as the background color against the zone name.
- Select .
- On Panorama or a multiple virtual system firewall, select the Device Group or the Virtual System to make the tag available.
- Add a tag and enter a Name to identify the tag or select a zone Name to create a tag for a zone. The maximum length is 127 characters.
- (Optional) Select Shared to create the object in a shared location for access as a shared object in Panorama or for use across all virtual systems in a multiple virtual system firewall.
- (Optional) Assign a Color from
the 17 predefined colors. By default, Color is None.
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- Click OK and Commit to save your changes.
- Apply tags to policy.
- Select Policies and any rulebase under it.
- Add a policy rule and use the tagged objects you created in Step 1.
- Verify that the tags are in use.
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- Apply tags to an address object, address group, service,
or service group.
- Create the object.For example, to create a service group, select .
- Select a tag (Tags) or enter
a name in the field to create a new tag.To edit a tag or add color to the tag, see Modify Tags.
- Create the object.
