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Intel® Packet Protect User’s Guide
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Modify the System Policy
Modifying a computer’s System Policy may impact policies that belong to other
clients with which your computer communicates using Packet Protect. In order
to apply your rule to a security association, the computer with which you are
attempting communication must have a rule with matching settings. If you have
already coordinated rules with these other computers, modifying your rule will
require modification to the rules for the other computers. Contact the network
administrator if you have any questions or concerns about modifying rules in the
System Policy.
You may edit the Default Rule that comes with your Packet Protect System Pol-
icy (see “The Default Rule” on page 26 for a description of the Default Rule).
Notes:
You should carefully consider the possible effects of changing
the Default Rule. If you modify the Default Rule extensively on
a computer, then you run the risk of that computer not being
able to successfully negotiate a secure transmission with
another computer in your network.
If you have to re-install Packet Protect for any reason, or need
to recreate the Default Rule, you will lose your customizations
and will have to specify them again.
To modify a rule
1. Determine which of the other computers on the LAN have a matching rule
for the rule you will edit. You need this information later.
2. On the Policy Editor dialog box, select the rule you want to modify.
3. Click Edit Rule. The Edit Rule dialog box appears.
4. Make changes as necessary.
5. If you click any of the Customize buttons to make changes, see “Modify
Destination Workgroups or Security Actions” for more information.
6. Click OK.
7. Go to the other computers that have a matching rule for the rule you just
modified (if you do not administer the other computers, coordinate the
needed rule changes with the other administrator). Complete steps 2-6 on
each of the other computers to update the settings so the rules have match-
ing settings.
Note:
You must change matching rules on other computers when
you modify your rules. Otherwise, when the computers
attempt to communicate, the rule may fail and the security
settings are not used.