Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Global whitelists
Web filtering
Global whitelisting 6
You can maintain lists for use by global whitelisting rules. This section describes some sample lists and
tells you how to add a web object to a global whitelist.
Sample lists for global whitelisting
The sample lists described here are used by the rules in the Global Whitelist library rule set. After
importing the rule set, you will find them on the Lists tab of the Policy top-level menu, sorted by their
names.
For general information on how to maintain lists, see List maintenance.
Global Whitelist
List of wildcard expressions for hosts that URLs provide access to
Type — Wildcard Expression
The list is initially empty.
The following table describes the list entries.
Table 6-15 Global Whitelist
Option Definition
Wildcard Expression Wildcard expression for hosts
Comment Plain-text comment on a wildcard expression
Allowed Clients
List of IP addresses for clients
Type — IP
The list is initially empty.
The following table describes the list entries.
Table 6-16 URL WhiteList
Option Definition
IP IP address of a client
Comment Plain-text comment on an IP address
Add a wildcard expression to a global whitelist for URLs
You can add a wildcard expression to a whitelist used by a global whitelisting rule to exempt requests
from further filtering when they submit URLs providing access to hosts that match the expression.
1 Go to Policy | Rule Sets.
2 On the rule sets tree, select a rule set that contains rules for global whitelisting, for example Global
Whitelist. The rules appear on the settings pane.
3 Find the rule that uses a whitelist to exempt requests when they submit URLs for hosts matching the
wildcard expressions on the list, for example, URL.Host matches in list Global Whitelist and click
on the list name.
Note: A yellow triangle by the list name indicates that this list is empty and you need to fill the entries.
The Edit List (Wildcard Expression) window opens.
4 Click Add. The Add Wildcard Expression window opens.
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