Create, edit or delete Locations

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 Locations 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

Before you begin

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.

    Important

    If the policy is for devices outside your organisation’s network, you must name the Location Outside Premises. See Apply different Web Filter Policies to users when offsite.

  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.

    Important

    If the policy is for devices outside your organisation’s network, you must name the Location Outside Premises. See Apply different Web Filter Policies to users when offsite.

  4. (Optional) Enter a comment about the Location as a whole.
  5. If you have a multi-tenant environment, select a Tenant or All tenants.
  6. Select whether to Exclude or Include this address from the Location using the toggle.
  7. Add the location details to the Location field.
  8. (Optional) Enter a comment for the location details.
  9. Select +Add IP.
  10. Select Add location.
  11. 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.

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