Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

Rules on the user interface
On the user interface, a web security rule appears in the following format:
Figure 4-3 Sample rule on the user interface
Rules and rule sets
About rule elements 4
The rule blocks a URL if its category is on a blocking list, notifies the user who requested access to the
URL of the blocking, and records the blocking by incrementing a counter.
The following table provides an overview of the individual rule elements and their meanings.
Table 4-1 Overview of rule elements
Option Definition Comment
Enabled Allows you to enable or disable the rule
Name Name of the rule
• Block URLs ... Name text
• Category BlockList In name text: List used by the rule Clicking on the list name opens the list
for editing.
• Yellow triangle Next to a list name: Indicates that the list is
initially empty
Criteria Criteria of the rule The criteria is only visible after clicking
the toggle button Show Details.
• URL.Categories Property
• Settings of the module that retrieves a value Clicking on the settings name opens the
for the property (here: the URL Filter settings for editing.
module)
The module name is not visible in the
rule. It appears, however, in the Edit
window for the rule criteria.
• at least one in list Operator
• Category BlockList Operand, also known as parameter (here: a Clicking on the list name opens the list
list used by the rule)
for editing.
The list name appears both in the rule
name and the criteria to let it be
available when the criteria is not visible.
• Yellow triangle Next to a list name: Indicates that the list is
initially empty
Action Action of the rule
• Block Name of the action The symbol varies with the action.
• Settings of the action (here: settings Clicking on the settings name opens the
specifying that a block message is sent to
the user who is affected by the blocking)
settings for editing.
Events One (or more) events of the rule The events are only visible in full after
clicking the toggle button Show
Details.
• Statistics.Counter.
Increment
Name of the event
• “BlockedByURLFilter, Parameters of the event (here: the name of
1”
a counter and an increment)
• Settings of the module that handles the Clicking on the settings name opens the
event
settings for editing.
For more information on these elements, see the following sections.
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