User's Guide - Websense Knowledge Bases

Chapter 2: Establishing Filtering PoliciesEditing a policyEdit your newly-created policy to specify filtering restrictions (see Editing apolicy, page 40).A policy consists of specified time periods during which particular approvedURL lists, URL category filters, and protocol filters are active.Edit a policy to add, change, or delete time periods, and to change the activefilters for each time period.NoteWhen you edit the Default policy, the schedule must coverall time periods, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If there areany gaps in the policy, Websense Manager does not allowyou to save the changes.1. If necessary, in the navigation tree, expand the Policies node and select apolicy.The content pane shows when the policy is active, and which URLcategory filters, approved URL lists, and protocol filters it enforces.2. In the policy section of the content pane, click Edit. The Edit Policydialog box appears.3. Double-click under Start Time and End Time to define a time periodduring which to enforce these restrictions.Do not define a time period that spans midnight. To use the same URLcategory filter from 5:00 pm to 8:00 am, define 2 time periods for it: onewith start time 17:00 (5:00 pm) and end time 24:00 (midnight) andanother with start time 00:00 (midnight) and end time 08:00 (8:00 am).4. Double-click in the Days column, and select each day of the week toenforce these restrictions. Click Done.5. Double-click in the URL Category Filter/Approved URL List columnand select the URL category filter or approved URL list to enforce duringthe days and times in the current row (see Working with URL categoryfilters, page 26, and Using an approved URL list, page 34).6. Double-click in the Protocol Filter column and select the protocol filterto enforce during the days and times in the current row. For moreinformation, see Working with protocol filters, page 36.40 Websense, Inc.