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An IP address exception is an IP address that you want the system to treat in a specific way for a security policy. For example, you can specify IP addresses from which the system should always trust traffic, IP addresses for which you do not want the system to generate learning suggestions for the traffic, and IP addresses for which you want to exclude information from the logs. You can use the IP address exception feature to create exceptions for IP addresses of internal tools that your company uses, such as penetration tools, manual or automatic scanners, or web scraping tools. You can add an IP address exception, and instruct the system how to handle traffic coming from that address.
You can view a centralized list of IP address exceptions, and you can add new IP address exceptions to the list. The list of IP address exceptions shows exceptions that you add directly to the list, or those which you add from other locations, as shown by the following examples:
The IP Address Exceptions list shows in one location all of the IP exceptions configured for this security policy. You can view or modify IP exceptions both from the centralized IP exception list and from the specific feature screens.
This implementation describes how to create, delete, and update the list of IP address exceptions.