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July 2011 - Posts

7.6 - Recategorized URL still blocked as "security override blocked"
Published Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:55 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
I just upgraded to 7.6. I have a custom URL category called iTunes that is allowed for a few users. I had one of them tell me that they are being blocked trying to download iTunes. The URL of the download is "http://www.apple.com/itunes/download...

setting up secondary filtering server
Published Wednesday, July 27, 2011 8:08 AM by Configuration and Settings
I currently expanding our site from 3000 to 6000 machines. We currently only have one filtering server. How many machines\users can one filtering Server handle? Does anyone have a link on how to setup a second filtering server to load balance? I did a...
Apply multiple polices to a single client object?
Published Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:17 AM by Configuration and Administration
Hi All, Got a question regarding the assigning of policies to AD user groups in Triton. Now am I just being really silly here but is there really no way you can assign more than one policy to a user group??? Take for example we have a group called “technical...

Cannont edit policy at all
Published Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:16 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
I have a problem with editing policy for WebSense Web Security v7.6. I was trying to follow an example from Getting started guide (Block All except Education) - no matter what initial policy profile I set (default, monitor only, block all ), I can't...
Problem when adding new user to group
Published Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:26 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
Hi all We are using Web Filter 7.6 with AD Integration. when i'm adding user to the Active Directory security group i need to wait more then an 1 hour until the user can work with the proxy. I try to "Clear cache" but its not helping. if...

Include or Exclude roughly 1000 IPs from a report
Published Tuesday, July 26, 2011 1:44 PM by Logging and Reporting
Hello, We are using WWS 7.5 (for now, transitioning soon to 7.6) and we are currently using one installation to filter both our private network as well as our public wireless network. I'd like to run some presentation reports that clearly separates...
v7.6 - Going from Software=based servers to V5000 appliances.
Published Tuesday, July 26, 2011 11:04 AM by Installation, Upgrade, and Deployment
Hello! Once upgraded to v7.6 on my Win2K3 servers, how do I move everything (excluding Log reporting) to the new Linux-based V5000 appliances? Our Log reporting DB is on an external Win2K8 SQL server. Thanks for any light you can shed. O.Galloso Jupiter...

Applying Network Policy over User Policy
Published Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:32 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
We are using Web Filter 7.6 with AD Integration. A user has a User policy and Network policy assigned to him. A specific category is allowed in the user policy and not in the network policy. When I get the block page, I click on more information and then...
Filter by Discovery Task list shows task names without incidents. DSS v 7.5.9
Published Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:15 AM by General
Looking at all data discovery incidents (no filtering, no ignored) ... when I filter on Discovery Task, there are more discovery task names appearing in the filter list than in the actual table view. Same observation when exporting to a file (the export...

Websense Appliances and Citrix
Published Tuesday, July 26, 2011 6:56 AM by Installation, Upgrade, and Deployment
I am using a V10K G2 for filtering and I have a windows server running the DB, DC agent and Log server. I also have a citrix server. Right now my users are not being properly identified. I know I can install the Citrix plug in on the box, but where do...