Switch off, edit or delete Web Filter Policies and Folders

This article applies to organisations with a 'Hybrid' setup (both On-Premise Appliance and Cloud), as well as On-Premise only and Cloud only setups.

 

Smoothwall’s Web Filtering functionality allows you to block or allow access to different web content.

Hybrid (Both Cloud and On-Premise Appliance)

If you have a Hybrid setup (both Cloud and On-Premise Appliance), you can edit your Web Filter Policies from either place.

As Actions for Do Not Filter, Soft Block and Limit to Quota are not available in Cloud, you can only edit a policy to change the Action to one of these in On-Premise Appliance.

If you edit to a different Action in Cloud, you will need to sign into the On-Premise Appliance, change the Action for the policy back, then sign out to sync the changes back to Cloud.

On-Premise Appliance

Switch policies or folders on and off

  1. Go to Guardian > Web Filter > Manage Policies.
  2. Select the toggle in the Enabled column.
  3. Select Save.

Important

Policies within folders that are not enabled have no effect, even if the policy itself is enabled.

 

Edit a policy or folder

  1. Go to Guardian > Web Filter > Manage Policies.
  2. Select the pencil icon to edit the policy or folder.
  3. Edit the configuration of the Who, What, Where, When and Action fields.
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Confirm to save your changes.

If you edit any of the Who, What, Where and When fields for the Policy folder, this will apply to the Policies within the folder. Only the items you defined when creating your Policy folder can be edited once policies have been added to the Policy folder.

Delete a policy or folder

  1. Go to Guardian > Web Filter > Manage Policies.
  2. Select the icon with an X symbol to delete the policy or folder.

Cloud Filter

Switch policies or folders on and off

  1. Go to Filter > Policies.
  2. Select the toggle in the Status column.
  3. Once updated, go to Filter > Publishing and select Publish.

Important

Policies within folders that are set to Disabled have no effect, even if the policy itself is still set to Enabled.

 

Edit a policy or folder

Once a policy has been added to a Policy folder, you can’t edit anything for the Policy folder aside from the name. You would need to delete the Policy folder and add a new one.

  1. Go to Filter > Policies.
  2. Select the policy or folder to edit.
  3. Make changes to the fields and the changes are automatically saved.
  4. Go to Filter > Publishing and select Publish.

Delete a policy or folder

  1. Go to Filter > Policies.
  2. Right-click on the policy or folder.
  3. Select Delete.
  4. Go to Filter > Publishing and select Publish.