Object categories
In SmartConsole, click the Objects tab [1] on the right side of the interface to see the general object categories available [2]. To dive deeper and see all the available object types within those categories, click on the Object Explorer icon [3] and then on the expansion triangle to the right of the New… button [4]. When you do, you'll see an expanded list of main categories:
Figure 9.5 – Object Categories
There are too many predefined object types to list but to give you an idea, here is an abbreviated list of object types within these categories:
Table 9.1 – Object Categories
In addition to the specific categories listed here, there are two broad categories that objects fall into: static and variable.
Static and variable object categories
Note that the term variable object is not used by Check Point, but I will shortly explain what this refers...
