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Configuring Intrusion Detection and Prevention Devices Guide
Table 28: IDP Rulebase Severity (continued)
Severity Description
Info Attacks that are normal, harmless traffic containing URLs, DNS lookup failures, and SNMP public
community strings. You can use informational attack objects to obtain information about your network.
We recommend that you log such attacks.

Specifying Rule Optional Fields

Specifying Rule Comments

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NOTE: Our severity rating is not based on CVSS (Common Vulnerability
Scoring System). We do include data from Bugtraq (Symantec) and CVE
(Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures).
Optional fields are user-defined name-value pairs you can configure if you want to be
able to sort rules based on these fields. Optional fields do not affect the functionality of
the security policy rule.
To specify optional fields, right-click the table cell and select Edit Options to display the
Select Policy Custom Options dialog box, where you can configure name-value pairs.
Comments are notations about the rule. Comments do not affect the functionality of
the security policy rule.
To specify comments, right-click the table cell and select Edit Comments to display the
Edit Comments dialog box, where you can enter a comment up to 1024 characters in
length.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Devices and Security Policies Overview on page 31
Configuring Predefined Security Policies (NSM Procedure) on page 33
Configuring Exempt Rulebase Rules (NSM Procedure) on page 45
Assigning a Security Policy in an Intrusion Detection and Prevention Device (NSM
Procedure) on page 119
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