Library Question

[Frank Weis]

Hi all,

I am in the process of replacing the 40+ firewalls I manage with new
hardware, and I want to seize this opportunity to review and re-organize
the policies and management process.

At the moment I have a different .fwb file for each remote site and a
few libraries that contain objects common to all the sites. As I
understand it, importing a library into a .fwb file is like physically
copying it into the file, ie when I update a library later, I'd have to
reopen all the files that depend on it an re-import.

Is there a better way to do this? I don't really want to merge all sites
into one big .fwb file as that would result in a huge file, with huge
lists of objects, and would require renaming of common-but-different
objects (each site has objects called LAN, DMZ, etc, but their
definition is different).


Thanks a lot for any thoughts/advice,

Frank


PS: I use fwbuilder since 2001, and I might very well have missed new
features, so don't hesitate to point to stuff that seems obvious to you :-)



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[Vadim Kurland ✎]

there is no way to use objects from a library in an external file without actually merging it into your main data file. Each data file should be "complete" in a sense that all references to objects must be resolved with objects in the same file. It sounds like you already have a few library files, right ? Objects from these library files have already been copied into your data files. If you do not want to merge everything into one large file, I guess you are going to have to continue using these separate files as you did before. I do not see a better way.

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Frank Weis <Frank.Weis@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I am in the process of replacing the 40+ firewalls I manage with new
hardware, and I want to seize this opportunity to review and re-organize
the policies and management process.

At the moment I have a different .fwb file for each remote site and a
few libraries that contain objects common to all the sites. As I
understand it, importing a library into a .fwb file is like physically
copying it into the file, ie when I update a library later, I'd have to
reopen all the files that depend on it an re-import.

Is there a better way to do this? I don't really want to merge all sites
into one big .fwb file as that would result in a huge file, with huge
lists of objects, and would require renaming of common-but-different
objects (each site has objects called LAN, DMZ, etc, but their
definition is different).


Thanks a lot for any thoughts/advice,

Frank


PS: I use fwbuilder since 2001, and I might very well have missed new
features, so don't hesitate to point to stuff that seems obvious to you :-)



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