Creating a custom IPS policy (CLI)

You can create a custom IPS policy by specifying the name of the new policy.

Prerequisites

To create a custom IPS policy:

Enable the CLI configuration mode.

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Create a custom IPS policy.
The following example creates a custom policy named myCustom1.
```
hostname (config) # ips policy myCustom1
```

Display the rule-matching attributes of the new IPS policy.

In the following example, the new custom policy has the same match attributes as the Comprehensive default IPS policy, which does not specify rule exclusion or inclusion attributes. For more information, see Attributes of IPS policies.

hostname (config) # show ips policies myCustom1
Policy attributes : 
        active : no
        writable : yes
        modified_date : 2014/09/26 09:51/36
        version : 1
 
Match attributes of policy : 
        attack-target : client
        attack-target : server
        min-severity : 1
        max-severity : 10
 
Fingerprint of policy :x
2014/09/26 09:51:36 | 791c1c0bcd3b604630616acac14a96b1

(Optional) To modify the rule-matching attributes of the new IPS policy, see Editing the rule match attributes of an IPS policy (CLI).
(Optional) To modify the rule exclusion and inclusion attributes of the new policy, see Editing the rule inclusion and exclusion attributes of an IPS policy (CLI).
Save your changes.
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```