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Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

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Authentication and access management<br />

Quota management<br />

• Media types — Users are allowed to download web objects belonging to particular media types only<br />

up to a limited volume.<br />

Note: These parameters are used by the rules in the library rule set for volume quotas. You can create rules<br />

of your own that use other parameters in relation to volume quotas.<br />

Information on the volume that users download from the web is stored on the appliance. When the<br />

configured volume quota has been exceeded for a user, a request that this user sends is blocked. A<br />

message is displayed to the user stating why the request was blocked.<br />

Users are identified by the user names they submitted for authentication. If no user name is sent with<br />

a request, web usage is recorded and blocked or allowed for the IP address of the client system that the<br />

request was sent from.<br />

<strong>Web</strong> downloads can be limited to volume downloaded per day, per week, or per month.<br />

Session time<br />

You can configure session time for users. This is the time allowed for a single session that a user spends<br />

on web usage.<br />

Session time is configured separately and handled differently for time quotas, volume quotas, and other<br />

quota management functions.<br />

• Session time for time quotas — When configuring time quotas, you also need to configure a<br />

session time. Whenever session time has elapsed for a user, the amount of time that is configured as<br />

session time is deducted from the user’s time quota.<br />

As long as the time quota has not been used up, the user can start a new session. When the time<br />

quota has elapsed, a request that the user sends is blocked and a block message is displayed.<br />

• Session time for volume quotas — When configuring volume quotas, the session time has no<br />

impact on the volume quota for a user.<br />

You can still configure a session time to inform the user about the amount of time that has been<br />

used up for web access. When time has elapsed for a session, the user can start a new session, as<br />

long as the configured volume has not been consumed. If you set the session time to zero, no<br />

session time is configured and communicated to the user.<br />

• Session time for other quota management functions — Session time can be configured for<br />

other quota management functions, which include Coaching, Authorized Override, and Blocking<br />

Sessions. Accordingly, there can be a coaching, an authorized override, or a blocking session.<br />

When session time has elapsed for coaching and authorized overriding, a request that a user sends<br />

is blocked. A message is displayed to the user stating why the request was blocked. The user can<br />

start a new session unless time quota has also been configured and is used up.<br />

The session time that is configured for the blocking session function is the time during which<br />

requests sent by a particular user are blocked. When this time has elapsed, requests from the user<br />

are again accepted unless time quota has also been configured and is used up.<br />

Coaching<br />

For coaching the web usage of your users, you configure a coaching session with a particular length of<br />

time. When this session time has elapsed for a user, a block message is displayed. The user can then<br />

start a new session.<br />

You can configure coaching in relation to the parameters used in the Coaching library rule set, such as<br />

URL categories, IP addresses, and user names. You can also create rules of your own using other<br />

parameters.<br />

148 <strong>McAfee</strong> <strong>Web</strong> <strong>Gateway</strong> <strong>7.1.5</strong> <strong>Product</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>

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