Create and apply policy hierarchies

Group rules under a hierarchy of policies.

By assigning rules to policies in a hierarchy, you can simplify policy management. Using policy inheritance, where a child policy inherits settings from its parent, you can apply a broad policy to a large group of rules and more specific policies to subgroups. For example, you might assign all rules of a certain device type to a group and then assign some of them to a subgroup that inherits the parent policy settings and the rest to a subgroup that has inheritance turned off.

You can nest child policies in other child policies, enable and disable rules, and turn inheritance on or off. Use caution - these tactics might complicate your policy management schema.

From Policy Editor, select the device and rule type you want to manage.
Click the Policy Tree icon.
Select the policy you want to be the parent.
Click the Policy Tree Menu icon and click New.
Type a name for the new policy and click OK.
Drag and drop the rules onto the new policies.
Roll out policy.