Creating and applying censor policies

Procedure

  1. On the SERVICES menu, under the Message censor submenu, click Policies.
  2. Under the Service settings section, choose the relevant service for this message censor policy.
  3. Click Select to view the policy in the Policy settings section.
  4. Under the Policy settings section, choose the Filter, Time period, Action, Log severity level and Group to use for the policy.
  5. Enter an optional descriptive Comment. New policies are Enabled by default.
  6. Click Add, and at the top of the page, click Restart to apply the policy. The Smoothwall applies the policy and adds it to Current policies.

Follow-up tasks

  • You need to turn on message censor filtering, see our help topic, Censoring and storing web form content.
  • To edit a policy:
    1. Under the Current policies section, select the policy and click Edit.
    2. Edit the settings and click Add to save your changes.
    3. At the top of the page, click Restart to apply the changes.
  • To delete a policy:
    1. Under the Current policies section, select the policy or policies and click Remove.
    2. At the top of the page, click Restart to apply the changes.