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Choose which On-Premise Appliance Block page is used

Updated
This article applies only to On-Premise Appliance, not to our Cloud products.

 

You can create a Block page policy to show a specific Block page to users when they try to access a blocked website.

  1. Go to Guardian > Block page > Policy wizard, or Manage Policies and select Create a new policy.
  2. Fill in each field using the Add or Remove buttons, as skipping a section will create a Policy folder instead of a policy. Select Next or the down arrow to expand each step.
  1. In the Who section, select who the policy applies to. Select either:
    • Everyone to apply to all users.
    • One or more User Groups.
    • The single user icon and enter a username. This option can only be set up in On-Premise Appliance, but is synced to Cloud Filter and applied using Cloud Filter Extension, Smoothwall Browser or Android Filter App.
  1. In the What section, select the type of content to be actioned by the policy. Select either:

Important

To prevent issues with the policy not applying or (if applied to Everything), having unintended effects, you must make sure your policies are targeted to the right thing. Check what to target using the Categories list and Content Modifications list.

  1. In the Where section, select where the policy should apply. Select either:
  1. In the When section, select when the policy should apply from your list of Time slots.
  1. Use the Action selector to choose how the policy should work: 
    • Drop connection: Users can't access the website and won't see a Block page. This option is often used with applications that can't return a block page to prevent repeated pinging and minimise load on Smoothwall. 
    • Select the Block page.
  1. Ensure the Enable policy checkbox is selected.
  2. Select Confirm.
  3. Select Save.

Go to Guardian > Web Filter > Manage Policies to see your new policy at the bottom of the table. You can reorder, turn off, edit or delete policies and folders.