Working with Policy Actions

An Action is a collection of settings that define a specified behavior for a Software Blade.

For each Action, you can:

• Right-click and select one of the predefined options.
• Right-click and select Edit or double-click to open the Properties of the Action. You can see the predefined settings and change them as necessary.
• Right-click and select Create Custom to configure all settings for that Action.
• After you create a changed or custom Action, you can select that Action to use it again in other rules.
• In the Select action field of the Action Properties, select New to rename an Action. You can rename an Action to show changes that you made and make it easier to use the Action again in other rules.

If you change the properties of a predefined or New Action, those properties become part of the Action. If you select that Action again in a different rule, it will include the changed properties.

For example, in the Properties of the Anti-Malware Action, Perform periodic anti-malware scan every month, you change the Day of month that the scan occurs to 2:

• For each rule that contains that Action, the scan occurs on Day 2 of the month.
• If you change the Day of month value to 3 in one rule where the Action is used, it will change in all rules that contain that Action.

Each Action that is different than the Action in the default rule shows in bold in the Policy Rule Base.

If an Action shows the Wide Impact icon , the Action is the same in all rules.