During the management and maintenance of the firewall host it is often useful to be able to temporarily turn off certain rules, policies, and so on. In PNS this feature is implemented through the Disable/Enable options of the local menus. To display the local menu of a rule or object, right-clicking on the object. For example, a packet filter rule that is only rarely used can be simply disabled when it is not required, to be enabled again when it is required. Disabled rules and objects are generated into the configuration file as comments with the # prefix.

Disabled objects can be edited, modified similarly to any other object. However, their validity (for example, the required parameters are filled, their name is unique, and so on) is checked only when they are enabled again.

The following objects can be disabled in the various MC components:

Host:

Packet filter:

Disabling a group automatically disables its childrens as well.

Application-level Gateway:

Networking:

Date and time:

Content vectoring:

AS:

Heartbeat:

IPSec VPN:

Mail transport: