# Advanced System Policy Settings

Once you have installed Intel® Packet Protect and understand the basic settings, you might want to customize your System Policy. These customizations include:

- Creating new rules

- Customizing existing rules

If you are maintaining Intel Packet Protect on a computer running Microsoft Windows NT*, you must have administrator rights.

When you create or modify rules in your System Policy, you'll also be:

> - Deciding the order for rules to be evaluated in

> - Working with Destination workgroups

> - Working with Security actions

Modifying a system's System Policy may impact policies that belong to other clients with which your system communicates using Intel Packet Protect. In order to apply your rule, the system with which you are attempting communication must have a rule with matching settings. If you have already coordinated rules with these other systems, modifying your rule will require modification to the rules for the other systems. Contact the administrator if you have any questions or concerns about modifying rules in the System Policy.

The Default Rule that comes with your System Policy cannot be modified. However, you can delete the Default Rule and create new rules for your System Policy .

Use the Policy Editor to customize your System Policy.

#### Note:

If you have to re-install Intel Packet Protect for any reason, or need to recreate or change the behavior of the Default Rule, you will lose your customizations and will have to specify them again.

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