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Editing a Zone Identification

This form allows to add/modify a zone identification names. there are three strings identifying a single zone, used depending on the place it is displayed.

Zone ID (unique): This ID number will be used everywhere needed to uniquely identify the zone. It is recommended not to modify the proposed default value.
Zone: short name for the zone. The name should be 5 characters or less in length and consist of lower-case letters or numbers. It must begin with a letter. Also, the name assigned to the firewall and "multi" are reserved for system use.
Zone Display: The zone name as displayed in logs.
Comments: A string to identify more precisely the role of that zone, for maintenance purposes.

Warning1: No space characters are allowed in any of those three strings. It is safer to limit the characters used to letters, numbers, and underscore "_".

Warning2: If you rename or delete a zone, you should perform a "stop" followed by a "start" to install the changes rather than "restart" in the "Firewall Rules" section's main page.


Example: you have a farm of Web servers all located on the same subnet. We will create here that zone and configure it later.

Zone: www
Zone Display: WWW
Comments: Web_Servers_Farm