The Non-working times tab allows you to define periods when users are not working and may be allowed to access websites that they are not allowed to access during normal working hours. To specify any non-working times for the policy, click on the Add... button. The Define non-working times policy dialog is displayed.
The entries on the Define non-working times policy dialog are as follows:
Entry Description
Period label: The name that you want to assign to the non-working time.
Days (s): The days of the week that you want to specify in the non-working time policy. Select a check box to include the day or select All to include all days.
Start: The start time of the non-working time policy.
Select the hour from the first drop-down list and the minutes from the second drop-down list.
End time: The end time of the non-working time policy.
Select the hour from the first drop-down list and the minutes from the second drop-down list.
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Click the Save button to save the entries in the Define non-working times policy dialog.
To edit an existing non-working time policy, click on the icon in the Options column. To delete an existing non-working time policy, click on the icon in the Options column.
Categories
The Categories tab lists all of the categories of websites that are currently defined. You can use the tab to specify if you want to allow or block access to any of the categories during Work or Non-work times. To allow a category, click on the green circle. By default, all categories are allowed during Work and Non-work times. To block a category, click on the red circle. Note that a URL may belong to more than one category.
For example, you may want to block the Gambling category during Work time and allow the category during Non-work time, as indicated below:
Click the Save button to save the category changes to the policy.
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Webfilter
The Webfilter tab allows you to enable or disable web filtering for the policy that you are editing. If you enable web filtering, you can specify the filtering settings that you want to apply to the web traffic coming through the WebTitan appliance for this policy, as follows:
Entry Description
Block internet Access users:
To block all users associated with this policy from accessing the Internet, you can set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To allow all users associated with this policy to access the Internet, within the constraints set by the other settings in the policy, you can set this option to OFF by clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is OFF.
Block all URLs: To block access to all URLs, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To allow access to all URLs, set this option to OFF by clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is set to OFF.
Block IP address URLs:
To block access to URLs that are in the form of an IP address, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To allow access to IP address URLs, set this option to OFF by clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is set to OFF.
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Allow HTTPS traffic:
Select the green button to allow or the red button to block HTTPS traffic during work and non-work times. Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) creates a secure channel over an insecure network and is usually associated with payment or sensitive transactions.
Allow unclassified HTTPS traffic:
Select the green button to allow or the red button to block access to unclassified, secure HTTPS websites during work and non-work times. Unclassified websites are websites that are new and are not yet assigned to a category in the central web categories database.
Allow unclassified traffic:
Select the green button to allow or the red button to block access to unclassified HTTP protocol websites during work and non-work times. Unclassified websites are websites that are new and are not yet assigned to a category in the central web categories database.
Enable URL content filtering
This option allows for the content of URLs to be filtered. Monitored for particular content, as specified in the Filtering
section. If the specified content threshold is exceeded, access to the URL is blocked.
To enable URL content filtering, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To turn off URL content filtering, set this option to OFF by clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is set to OFF.
If you enable this option, the URL content threshold text box is displayed. Each word or phrase is assigned a value in the Content Scoring section of the Filtering tabbed section. Each time a word from this section is found in the content of a URL, the score is incremented. If the same word is used multiple times in the URL, then the score for that word is counted every time the word occurs. Use this text box to specify the limit that the total score can reach before action is taken.
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Enable page content filter:
This option allows for the content of web pages to be monitored for particular content as specified in the Filtering section. If the specified content threshold is exceeded, access to the web page is blocked.
To enable page content filtering, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To turn off page content filtering, set this option to OFF by clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is set to OFF.
If you enable this option, the Page content threshold text box is displayed. Each word or phrase is assigned a value in the Content Scoring section of the Filtering tabbed section. Each time a word from this section is found in the content of a web page, the score is incremented. If the same word is used multiple times throughout the page, then the score for that word is counted every time the word occurs. Use this text box to specify the limit that the total score can reach before action is taken.
Enable page
download size limit:
To enable a size limit for page downloads, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. To turn off page download size limits, set this option to OFF by 50 clicking on the Disable button. By default, this option is set to OFF.
If you enable this option, the Download size limit (Kb) text box is displayed. Use this text box to specify the download page size limit in kilobytes. Users are not
allowed to access web pages that are above this limit.
Log but do not block
To override any blocks already specified in the Webfilter tab, with the exception of the Block internet Access users option, you set this option to ON by clicking on the Enable button. This overrules the blocking of pages and allows users to access pages that would otherwise be blocked. An entry is added to the log file with details about the user and the blocked page. No warning message is presented to the user. By default, this option is OFF.
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Log only group name
This option is similar to the previous option except that only the name of the group to which the user belongs is added to the log file and not the name of the user.
By default, web filtering is enabled. To disable web filtering, click on the Disable button. Click on the Save button to save the web filtering changes to the policy.