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Chapter 12 Content Filtering Screens

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12.4 Content Filter Policy

Click SECURITY > CONTENT FILTER > Policy to display the following screen.
This screen lists groups of content filtering settings called policies. Content filtering policies
allow you to have different content filtering settings for different users or groups of users. For
example, you may want to block most employees from accessing finance or stock websites,
but allow the finance department to access these. You can set the ZyWALL to use external
database content filtering and select which web site categories to block and/or log.
You may find that a web site has not been accurately categorized or that a web site’s contents
have changed and the content filtering category needs to be updated. See

Section 13.3 on page

250

for how to submit the web site for review.

License Status

This read-only field displays the status of your category-based content

filtering (using an external database) service subscription.
License Inactive displays if you have not registered and activated the

category-based content filtering service.
License Active and the subscription expiration date display if you have

registered the ZyWALL and activated the category-based content filtering

service.
Trial Active and the trial subscription expiration date display if you have

registered the ZyWALL and activated the category-based content filtering

service.
License Inactive and the date your subscription expired display if your

subscription to the category-based content filtering service has expired.

Note: After you register for content filtering, you need to wait

up to five minutes for content filtering to be activated.
See

Section 13.1 on page 245

for how to check the

content filtering activation.

Message to display

when a site is blocked

Denied Access

Message

Enter a message to be displayed when a user tries to access a restricted

web site. The default message is Please contact your network administrator!

Redirect URL

Enter the URL of the web page to which you want to send users when their

web access is blocked by content filtering. The web page you specify here

opens in a new frame below the denied access message.
Use “http://” followed by up to 120 ASCII characters. For example, http://

192.168.1.17/blocked access.
If you do not specify a URL and a user tries to access a web page containing

a forbidden object, a blocking page displays on the forbidden object.

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyWALL.

Reset

Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.

Table 56 SECURITY > CONTENT FILTER > General

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