Global policies and objects function in a similar fashion to local policies and objects, but are applied universally to all ADOMs and VDOMs inside your FortiManager installation. This allows users in a carrier, service provider or large enterprise to support complex installations that may require their customers to pass traffic through their own network.

For example, a carrier or host may allow customers to transit traffic through their network, but do not want their customer to have the ability to access the carrier’s internal network or resources. Creating global policy header and footer packages to effectively “surround” a customer’s policy packages can help maintain security.

Global policy packages must be explicitly assigned to specific ADOMs to be used. When configuring global policies, a block of space in the policy table is reserved for Local Domain Policies. All of the policies in an ADOM’s policy table is inserted into this block when the global policy is assigned to an ADOM.

Display options for policies and objects can be configured in System Settings > Admin > Admin Settings.