Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO) calls objects on multiple devices with the same name and same
contents, shared objects. Shared objects are identified by this
icon on the Objects page. Shared objects make it easy to
maintain policies because you can modify an object in one place and that change affects
all the other policies that use that object. Without shared objects, you would need to
modify all the policies individually that require the same change.
When looking at a shared object, CDO shows you the contents of the object in the object table. Shared objects have exactly the same contents. CDO shows you a combined or "flattened" view of the elements of the object in the details pane. Notice that in the details pane, the network elements are flattened into a simple list and not directly associated with a named object.
