To add. If you query your unused objects from within your smatview
dashboard, in a clean up effort, beware on what you remove. You could
have created an object and performed auto static NAT on it with auto
proxy arp enabled, but then created another object for the valid natted
IP and used this in the rulebase instead of the original object. With
the object not being used in the rulebase the query will show it as
unused, removing it will kill your auto proxy arp for the natted IP. 

-GS

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Subject: Re: [FW-1] Rule most used

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Din Cox wrote:
> Eventia Reporter can provide what you are looking for. It can be used
to
> determine which rules are used the most, which rules are used
> infrequently and which rules are never used.

Just keep sharp if you decide to remove these 'unused rules'. A customer
shot himself in the foot that way.  That rule allowing traffic from
Gateway to SmartCenter was not used for months. So it was decided to
remove it.

A few weeks later thay did test the no-break and it broke. After they
fixed the power they saw no traffic from that gateway

It turned out the log connection was dropped. Just because nothing is
shown does not always mean it is not in use. Some session can live for
months.

Hugo.

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