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be used when organizing IP rules.
A compliment and alternative to folders for organizing objects is using configuration object
groups. Object groups allows the administrator to gather together and color code configuration
objects under a specified title text so their relationships are more easily understood when they
are displayed in a cOS Core graphical user interface. Unlike folders, they do not require each
folder to be opened for individual objects to become visible. Instead, all objects in all groupings
are visible at once.
Object groups can be used not only for address book objects but in most cases where cOS Core
objects are displayed as tables and each line represents an object instance. The most common
usage of this feature is likely to be for either the cOS Core Address Book to arrange IP addresses
or for organizing rules in IP rule sets.
Tip: Object groups help to document configurations
Object groups are a recommended way to document the contents of cOS Core
configurations.
This can be very useful for someone seeing a configuration for the first time. In an IP rule
set that contains hundreds of rules, object groups provide a means to quickly identify
those rules associated with a specific aspect of cOS Core operation.
Object Group Usage with InControl
Object groups are used in the same way in both the Web Interface and InControl. The description
in this section applies to both user interfaces although the screen shots used come from the Web
Interface. Both interfaces provide the same options for manipulating groups although there are
small layout differences.
Object Groups and the CLI
The display function of object groups means they do not have relevance to the command line
interface (CLI). It is not possible to define or otherwise modify object groups with the CLI and
they will not be displayed in CLI output. Any group editing must be done through the Web
Interface or InControl and this is described next.
A Simple Example
As an example, consider the IP rule set main which contains just two rules to allow web surfing
from an internal network and a third Drop-all rule to catch any other traffic so that it can be
logged:
Note
The screen images used in this example show just the first few columns of the object
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