Compare Firewall Rules

To compare firewall rules within the Control Center:
  1. Click and select Control Center.
  2. Run a search for the Firewall rules (either Security Rules, NAT rules, or Route Rules) you want to compare.
  3. On the search results screen, click the Firewall tab.
  4. In the search results field, select up to three Firewall rules that you want to use in the comparison.
  5. Click in the Command bar.
  6. On the Select primary policy popup screen that appears, select the radio button beside the Firewall rule that you want to use as the basis of the comparison, then click Compare.
    The Firewall rule details then appear side-by-side on the Compare policies screen with the following markups:
    • Yellow highlights are used to indicate different content between the two rules. In the image below, the name of the secondary rule differs from the first, so it is highlighted. Highlighting is also used to indicate content that appears only in the secondary or tertiary rule.
    • Strike-through text is used to indicate rule components that appear in the primary rule but are absent in the second and/or third rule. In the image below, the primary rule lists HTTPS and TCP as the Firewall protocols, but the secondary policy does not contain any protocols so those values are struck out.
    Note: If the HTTPS and TCP protocols had appeared only in the secondary policy, they would have appeared as highlighted text rather than strike-through text.