• Individual Users
• Group of Users
• Time of day
• Application based bandwidth

This document explains how to create an Application Filter Policy for blocking P2P applications for a particular user.

Requirement

Block P2P applications for user ‘John’.

Prerequisite

Solution

 

The entire configuration is to be done from Web Admin Console. Access Web Admin Console with user having “Administrator” profile.

Follow the below given steps to block P2P applications for group of users:

Step 1: Create Application Filter Policy

 

Go to Application Filter à Policy à Policy and click on “Add” button to add an application filter policy with the following parameters.

 

 

Parameters	Value
Name	BlockP2P
Template	Allow All Here all the applications would be allowed, but some defined categories will be blocked

 

Click OK and the Application Filter Policy ‘BlockP2P’ will be created successfully.

 

Note:

 

Appliance is shipped with the following predefined policies for applications: Allow All and Deny All. These two predefined policies are immediately available for use until configured otherwise. You can also define custom policies to define different levels of access for different users to meet your organization’s requirements.

Step 2: Add Application Filter Policy Rules

Go to Application Filter à Policy à Policy and click on ‘Add’ button to add application filter policy rules. Click the Edit icon  in the Manage column against the Application Filter Policy to which rules are to be added.

 

 

Parameters	Value
Select Categories	P2P Select Application Category from the list of available categories.
Select Application	Select All Select the Applications which you want to block under the Category selected.
Action	Deny
Schedule	All the Time Schedule defines a time schedule for applying the rule.

 

Click OK and the Application Filter Policy Rule will be created successfully.

 

 

Step 3: Apply Application Filter Policy to User

 

• Go to Identity à Users à User

• Select user to apply Application Filter policy created in Step 1.

• Under Policies Section, select ‘BlockP2P’ for Application Filter

• Click OK button to update

 

 

Click OK and the policy will be applied to user and the user will be updated successfully.

Above configuration will Block access to all P2P Applications for user ‘John’.

 

                                                                                                                                                                       Document Version – 1.0 – 11/07/2011