Create, edit or delete Location Objects

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 use Location objects in the Where part of policies, such as:

  • Web Filter Policies to apply the policy to certain machines or subnets.
  • Web Proxy Authentication Policies to apply different authentication methods to different network locations, on both transparent and non-transparent proxies.

Locations can be:

  • A single IP address, for example 192.168.1.1
  • A range of IP addresses, for example 192.168.1.1-192.168.1.100
  • A subnet in CIDR notation, for example 192.168.1.0/24
  • A device hostname, for example pc1-room1.domain.local

On-Premise Appliance

Prerequisites

If you will be using hostnames as Locations:

  1. Go to Network > Configuration > DNS.
  2. Move to the Conditional DNS Forwarders section.
  3. Select Add new conditional DNS forwarder.
  4. Add the location details, including a reverse-lookup address to the Domains field.
  5. Select Add.

Create a Location

  1. Go to Guardian > Policy Objects > Locations.
  2. Name the new Location Object.
  3. Select a Tenant or All tenants.
  4. Add the details to the Addresses field.
  5. Select Advanced to add any addresses to exclude.
  6. Select Save.

Edit or delete a Location

Go to Guardian > Policy Objects > Locations.

  • To edit a location, select the pencil or folder icon. Make any changes then select Save.
  • To remove an address from the location, expand the folder and select the X icon.
  • To delete a location, select the X icon.

Cloud Filter

Create a Location

  1. Go to Filter > Locations.
  2. Select Add location.
  3. Name the new Location Object, add a comment if needed.
  4. If you have a multi-tenant environment, select a Tenant or All tenants.
  5. Select whether to Exclude or Include this address from the Location using the toggle.
  6. Add the location details to the Location field.
  7. Add a comment if needed.
  8. Select +Add IP.
  9. Select Add location.
  10. Go to Publishing from the left-hand menu and select Publish.

Edit or delete a Location

Go to Filter > Locations.

  • To edit a location, select Edit. Make any changes then select Close.
  • To delete a location, select Delete.

Make sure you go to Publishing from the left-hand menu and select Publish.