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In many environments Network Address Translation (NAT) seems to be very extensively used. That has resulted in hundreds or even thousands of NAT rules in Firewall Policies. To help managing all these NAT rules, we have now introduce two nice features that you may have already used in Access Rules side.

In the Logs, you can now open the related NAT rule directly from the log entry’s right-click menu. Note that this action is available only for those log records that actually contain a NAT rule tag. When selecting this action, the system opens the correct FW policy and highlights the NAT rule that was related to the selected log entry.

NAT rule counters allow the administrors to see the hit counts for each NAT rule directly in the policy. The feature needs to be launched from the policy toolbar. In the dialog that opens you can select the time period for the rule analysis. As a result, the system shows you how many times each NAT rule has matched within the time period. This information is displayed in the “Hits” column directly in the NAT policy table.

written by Tero Jantunen - 1,284 views \\ tags: 5.2, counters, Feature Previews, firewall, Links, NAT, NAT rule, Policy, rule, rule tags, Shortcuts, SMC