severity

The severity keyword is used to specify the severity of the vulnerability that a signature covers. It is optional. The severity keyword allows the IPS ngine to inspect different sets of attacks in different firewall profiles. You can enable a subset of severity levels in a firewall profile so that a packet associated with the profile is only checked by signatures of the selected severity levels. This ability provides the user with another dimension of control over IPS Engine performance and signature false positive rates. The severity keyword accepts one of the following values: critical, high, medium, low, and info. The default severity is “critical”.

Syntax:

--severity <severity level>;

Examples:

--severity medium;