Create a Custom Category

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.

 

You can create a new Custom Category to group Smoothwall's Built-in Categories and other content for Web Filtering, HTTPS Inspection (On-Premise Appliance), or Content Modification.

Hybrid (both Cloud and On-Premise Appliance)

If you have a Hybrid setup, you can manage your Custom Categories and Web Filter Policies in either place. To sync:

  • For On-Premise Appliance, log out.
  • For Cloud, go to Filter > Publishing and select Publish.

On-Premise Appliance

Before you begin

Check if the URL is already included in a category used in your policies. Adding the same URL to Categories used in different policies makes it more challenging to manage what is being blocked, allowed or inspected.

Add a custom category

  1. Go to Guardian > Policy Objects > Categories.
  2. In the Manage categories section, enter the Name of your Custom Category.
  3. (Optional) Enter a descriptive Comment.
  4. (Optional) If you are part of a multi-tenant setup, select the tenants that can use this category.

  5. Enter items into the Domain/URL filtering section, or select Advanced to use Search Term Filtering, URL Patterns, File Types or Videos.

    Tip

    If you have items in a list, select Edit in full-text mode and paste the list. Check the list is correct by selecting Edit in list mode.

  6. Select Save.

Cloud Filter

  1. Go to Filter > Custom categories.
  2. Select Add category.
  3. Enter the Name of your Custom Category and an optional Description.
  4. Select All tenants, or select a tenant.
  5. Add items within each of the tabs for Domain/URL list, Search Terms and Videos.
  6. Select Add category.
  7. Go to Publishing from the left-hand menu and select Publish.