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Schedules
When implementing Web Filtering within an organization, you may wish to change
the type of rules a group of users has based on the time of day and/or day of the
week. For example, you might like to let your staff have access to Internet
banking, online shopping and news sites only during their lunch hour. Schedules
within the web security service facilitate this by enabling you to create a time
period (called a Schedule) and then pair that ‘Schedule’ with a particular Group
and ‘Filter’ within the ‘Policy’. In this way, a Group can have many different types
of Web access depending on the time of day and day of the week.
How the Web Security Service Processes Schedules
Within the web security service, a schedule takes precedence based on the
position of the rule with the policy. For example, suppose that you have three
schedules:
• Default (24x7)
• Work Day (09:00 – 18:00)
• Lunch (13:00 – 14:00)
If you were to add a rule which had the Work Day schedule with Group A above
another rule with the Lunch schedule against Group A, the first rule will process
and if the filter is matched the action will take place regardless of whether the
Lunch schedule would have made a difference. To stop this from happening, you
should therefore always place rules with shorter time periods in the schedules
above those with longer schedules.
To create a Schedule:
1. Click the ‘Web Filtering’ service tab on the main navigation bar at the top of
the screen.
2. Click the ‘Schedules’ link in the ‘Management’ sub-service menu. This will
bring up the main ‘Manage Schedules’ page.
3. The ‘Manage Schedules’ page presents you with a listing of all your current
Schedules. To create a new Schedule, click the ‘Create a Schedule’ tab at
the top of the page.
4. Type the name you wish to give to the new Schedule in the ‘Schedule name:’
text field located at the top of the page.
5. Select the ‘From’ and ‘To’ times that you would like the Schedule to
encompass, by selecting the hour and or minutes from the respective drop-
down boxes provided.
Note: If you would like to create a 24-hour Schedule, then you must set both
the ‘From’ and ‘To’ times to 00hrs 00mins.
6. Select the time zone for which you would like to set up this Schedule.