ExtremeWireless WiNG Controllers Getting Started Guide

Go to Policies > URL Filtering.

Configuring a URL Filter policy consists of creating a policy and assigning it a name, then configuring policy rules. The user interfaces used to perform these configuration tasks include:

A list of configured URL Filter policies or Web Filter Rules.
Tools that allow users to manage the policies and rules.

View Configured Policies and Rules

URL Filter Table Column Headings and Web Filter Rules Table Column Headings describe the type of information displayed under each column in user interfaces used to perform URL Filter policy configuration tasks.

Table 1. URL Filter Table Column Headings
Column Heading	Description
Policy Name	The name assigned to the URL Filter policy when it was created.
Action	See Management Tools for details about the controls under this column.

Table 2. Web Filter Rules Table Column Headings
Column Heading	Description
Precedence	Displays the priority of the rule.
Method	Indicates whether the rule is exclusive (whitelist) or inclusive (blacklist) of all sites except those in the defined Categories and URL Lists.
Filter Type	Displays the filter type in use for the policy. Possible filter types include: category category_type level url_list
Category	If the Filter Type is set to category, this column displays the configured category. There are 62 possible categories. Categories are based on an external database, and cannot be modified or removed. Custom categories can be created with the URL List and added to the database.
Category Type	If the Filter Type is set to category_type, this column displays the configured category type. There are 14 possible category types.
Level	If the Filter Type is set to level, this column displays the configured level. There are 6 possible levels.
URL List	If the Filter Type is set to url_list, this column displays the selected URL List which is defined in the URL List policy.
Description	Provides a description of the Web filter rule to help differentiate it from others with similar categories.
Action	See Management Tools for details about the controls under this column.

Management Tools

Choose from the following actions:

Select the sort icon adjacent to a column heading to sort the data by the heading topic. By default, the data is sorted in ascending order, as indicated by the direction of the arrow in the icon . Toggle the icon to sort the column data in descending order . The "1" indicates by which column heading topic the data is currently sorted.
Select and enter a keyword in the search field to narrow the list of entries in the table.
Select to download the URL Filter policy entries in csv format.
Select to choose the columns displayed in the table.
Select to refresh the list.
From under the Actions column in the table choose from the following actions:
- Select associated with a policy to modify it.
- Select associated with a policy to delete it.
Select to configure a new policy.

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View Configured Policies and Rules

Management Tools