Conditional Behavior Priorities

Conditional Behavior Priorities

• The conditional_behaviors have a priority as shown below:

  1. favorites is the highest priority
  2. whitetags
  3. blacktags
  4. whitelists
  5. blacklists is the lowest priority

Special Conditional Behavior Priorities

• There is a special kind of tag called a behavioral_tag which has a higher priority than its normal_tag cousins.

  1. favorites is the highest priority
  2. whitetags
     1. behavioral_whitetags
     2. normal_whitetags
  3. blacktags
     1. behavioral_blacktags
     2. normal_blacktags
  4. whitelists
  5. blacklists is the lowest priority

• The behavioral_tags also have the ability to become a higher priority over favorites by setting high_priority: true.

  1. whitetags
     1. behavioral_whitetags is the highest priority
  2. blacktages
     1. behavioral_blacktags
  3. favorites
  4. whitetags
     1. normal_whitetags
  5. blacktags
     1. normal_blacktags
  6. whitelists
  7. blacklists is the lowest priority

• Multiple behavioral_tags can be defined and individually set to high_priority: true or high_priority: false.

  1. whitetags
     1. behavioral_whitetags is the highest priority
  2. blacktages
     1. behavioral_blacktags
  3. favorites
  4. whitetags
     1. behavioral_whitetags
     2. normal_whitetags
  5. blacktags
     1. behavioral_blacktags
     2. normal_blacktags
  6. whitelists
  7. blacklists is the lowest priority

• A behavioral tag's priority amongst its sibling behavioral tags, with the same high_priority value, is determined by its relative position in the configuration file.
  • Higher relative position means higher priority.
  • whitetags always have a higher priority than blacktags with the same high_priority value