Shared Objects

Question 1

What are the shared objects used for?

Answer 1

configured objects (such as an address object) and policy rules apply to all of the virtual systems on the firewall

Question 2

What happens if you try to create a shared object with the same name and type as an existing object in a virtual system?

Answer 2

the virtual system object is used

Question 3

Which Shared configuration objects are multiplied by the number of vsys and count toward the total maximum capacity of your firewall model?

Answer 3

• External Dynamic Lists
• Security Profile Groups
• All Security Profiles
• HIP objects and Profiles
• Custom Objects (custom data patterns, Spyware, Vulnerability Protection, and URL Category)
• Decryption Profile
• SD-WAN Link Management Profiles

Question 4

What happens if you have a Shared EDL with 1000 IP addresses and 50 vsys and the EDL is pushed to all the 50 vsys?

Answer 4

1,000 IP addresses are pushed to each of the 50 vsys of the multi-vsys firewall with the total of 50,000 IP addresses