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 |