Overview
Learn about default system and health policies in Firewall Management Center, including how system policies standardize shared settings across devices and how health policies enable continuous performance monitoring for managed appliances.
By default, all appliances have an initial system policy applied. The system policy governs settings that are likely to be similar for multiple appliances in a deployment, such as mail relay host preferences and time synchronization settings. We recommend that you use the Firewall Management Center to apply the same system policy to itself and all the devices it manages.
By default, the Firewall Management Center also has a health policy applied. A health policy, as part of the health monitoring feature, provides the criteria for the system to continuously monitor the performance of the appliances in your deployment. We recommend that you use the Firewall Management Center to apply a health policy to all the devices it manages.