McAfee M-1250 IPS Configuration Guide - Page 45

McAfee® Network Security Platform 5.1 Managing IPS settings Figure 36: Bulk Edit - Review Page Click Cancel to exit Bulk Editing without changes. 12 Click OK to confirm and save your Bulk Edit changes. You are returned to the Configure Attack Detail for Attack Category window. Deleting an IPS policy To delete a policy you have created, do the following: 1 Select IPS Settings > Policies > IPS Policy Editor. 2 Select the policy for deletion. 3 Click Delete. 4 Click Yes to confirm the deletion. You cannot delete a currently applied policy. Creating versions of an IPS policy Once you add a policy, the Manager allows you to create versions of the policy. Version Control helps you track the changes made to the policy over a period of time. When you create a new policy, the Manager saves the policy as the first revision. If you edit an existing policy and commit the changes, the Manager saves the changes as the next revision of the policy. In case, you need to discard the recent changes made to the policy and use the previous settings, the Manager also provides the option of reverting to a previous version of the policy. You can save up to 30 versions of a policy, by default. This is a user-configurable value, and can be changed using the ems.properties file. To create a new version of a policy, do the following: 37